swamped
filled or covered with water; flooded; inundated: The most important thing we learned is how to paddle a swamped canoe back in to shore.He saw lines of people walking along the swamped road, completely drenched.
overwhelmed, especially with an excess of something:The website outage was most likely caused by swamped servers.Whether it's helping a swamped colleague with a project or buying a stranger a cup of coffee, any small act of kindness can boost happiness.
the simple past tense and past participle of swamp.
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Back in the swamp, Todd comes face to face with Viola, a young girl who has crash-landed on New World in a small scouting craft, ahead of an incoming ship of new planetary settlers.
Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland are hunted on distant planet in Chaos Walking trailer | Jennifer Ouellette | November 19, 2020 | Ars TechnicaNitrogen and phosphorus from eating insects allows sundews to thrive in places where most plants can’t survive, like the acidic, nutrient-poor soil of swamps and bogs.
These Photos Remind Us Why Conservation Matters - Issue 92: Frontiers | Kevin Berger | November 11, 2020 | NautilusDavid Thomas, my great-grandfather, was a runaway slave who fled from North Carolina through swamps and woods to find safety in the hills of Virginia.
About 85% of palm-oil production occurs in Indonesia and Malaysia, and the conversion of peat swamps into palm-oil plantations produces as much greenhouse-gas pollution as nearly half of the global aviation industry.
‘We’re weeding out the bad actors’: Mars says its M&Ms no longer contribute to deforestation | Bernhard Warner | October 6, 2020 | FortuneSome ancient Romans also thought that tiny creatures in swamps could make people sick.
Organized money swamped organized people (in fairness not all outside money was right-wing).
Undo Citizens United? We’d Only Scratch the Surface | Jedediah Purdy | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNo one in Washington listened, and Sequoyah was swamped by the establishment of Oklahoma in 1907.
The Daily Pic: In 1913, New Yorker Robert Winthrop Chandler was a successful radical, until he got swamped by Matisse and Duchamp.
The couple were swamped with phone-waving well-wishers and extra police had to be called in at one stage as numbers swelled.
Windsor Love Fest As Will and Kate Meet Barbara on London Bus | Tom Sykes | November 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut in the past decade the city of less than 60,000 inhabitants has been swamped with over 20 million visitors each year.
The Big Idea: How Tourism Can Destroy the Places We Love | Elizabeth Becker | July 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe wave caused by the explosion swamped the submarine and it and its crew found a watery grave.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | VariousThe waves ran high and the boats were in great danger of being swamped.
Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser | Walter Fenton MottI thought we were swamped as I clung desperately to the tiller, though thrown violently against the boom.
He might have been swamped by an uprising of the whole convention, but strange to say the convention was intent upon hearing him.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonHad our craft been a dug-out boat, as I originally intended it to be, we must inevitably have been swamped.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont | Louis de Rougemont
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