Hypertext Webster Gateway: "swamped"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swamp \Swamp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swamped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Swamping}.]
1. To plunge or sink into a swamp.
2. (Naut.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to
capsize or sink by whelming with water.
3. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to
overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped
by the creation of twelve Tory peers. --J. R. Green.
Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus
of a theory. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
swamped
adj 1: sunk by being filled with water; "a swamped boat"
2: rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or
profusion of something; "a desk flooded with
applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much
overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by
work" [syn: {flooded}, {inundated}, {overcome}, {overpowered},
{overwhelmed}, {engulfed}]
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