had been swamping

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of swamp.
  swamp

  noun

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

Related Words

• beset
• besiege
• drench
• drown
• engulf
• inundate
• overcrowd
• overflow
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• saturate
• sink
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