swamp
noun
a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
was swamping
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past progressiveof swamp.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps that’s why Dr Angry had been so upset: I was swamping the empty hospital.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2020
As workers struggled to restart the pumps, the plant was swamping.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2017
By last week the flood of camp-meetin' melody, which had been rising steadily in juke joints and on radio programs for over a year, was swamping Tin Pan Alley.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wrote, therefore, proposing as an alternate that they dispose of the big subscription set that was swamping them.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) by Albert Bigelow Paine
Twice the cry was heard from those on the chains that the boat was swamping.
From The Loss of the Kent, East Indiaman, in the Bay of Biscay Narrated in a Letter to a Friend by Duncan McGregor
