a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.

to flood or drench with water or the like.

Nautical . to sink or fill (a boat) with water.

to plunge or cause to sink in or as if in a swamp.

to overwhelm, esp. to overwhelm with an excess of something

He swamped us with work.

to render helpless.

to remove trees and underbrush from (a specific area), esp. to make or cleave a trail (often fol. by out ).

to trim (felled trees) into logs, as at a logging camp or sawmill.

to fill with water and sink, as a boat.

to sink or be stuck in a swamp or something likened to a swamp.

to be plunged into or overwhelmed with something, esp. something that keeps one busy, worried, etc.

verb

pass up , underwhelm

noun

bog , bottoms , everglade , fen , glade , holm , marsh , marshland , mire , moor , morass , mud , muskeg , peat bog , polder , quag , quagmire , slough , swale , swampland , wetland , bayou , everglades , marish , miasma , wash

verb

beset , besiege , crowd , drench , drown , engulf , inundate , overcrowd , overflow , overload , satiate , saturate , sink , snow * , submerge , submerse , surfeit , swallow up , upset , wash , waterlog , whelm , deluge , overwhelm , flood , mire , overcome