swamped

[ swompt ]

/ swɒmpt /

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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.

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Origin of swamped

swamp + -ed²

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swamp boat, swamp buggy, swamp buttonwood, swamp cabbage, swamp cypress, swamped, swamper, swamp fever, swampfish, swamphen, swampland

How to use swamped in a sentence

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 Technica
Nitrogen 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|Nautilus
David 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.
Here’s What’s at Stake When You Vote|Daniel Malloy|November 1, 2020|Ozy
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|Fortune

Some ancient Romans also thought that tiny creatures in swamps could make people sick.
Scientists Say: Theory|Bethany Brookshire|October 5, 2020|Science News For Students
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|DAILY BEAST
No one in Washington listened, and Sequoyah was swamped by the establishment of Oklahoma in 1907.
One U.S. Constitution Just Wasn’t Enough|Tom Arnold-Forster|July 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Daily Pic: In 1913, New Yorker Robert Winthrop Chandler was a successful radical, until he got swamped by Matisse and Duchamp.
Painting, Red in Tooth and Claw|Blake Gopnik|November 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
But 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|DAILY BEAST
The wave caused by the explosion swamped the submarine and it and its crew found a watery grave.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge|Various
The waves ran high and the boats were in great danger of being swamped.
Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser|Walter Fenton Mott
I thought we were swamped as I clung desperately to the tiller, though thrown violently against the boom.
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War|Various
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 Nicholson
Had 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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