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swampverb to cover with a floodthe boat was swamped by the huge wave has been swamped with paperwork since she returned from vacation deluge, drown, engulf, flood, gulf, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, submerge, submerse avalanche, smotherovercome, overrunflow, flush, gush, pour, sluice, spout, spurt, streamdouse(also dowse), drench, soak, wet drain dehydrate, dry, parch to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stressparents feeling swamped by work and family obligations crush, devastate, floor, grind (down), oppress, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, prostrate, snow under, whelm deluge, drown, sinkconfute, defeat, refutebreak, demoralize, distress, disturb, rock, shatter, stagger, throw, unman, unnerve, upset spongy land saturated or partially covered with waterbe careful in the swamp, because alligators sometimes lurk there bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, muskeg, slough(also slew or slue), swampland, wash, wetland swalequagmireguck(or gook), muck, mud, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapewith her credit cards maxed out, and the making of minimum payments a challenge, debt seemed to be an ever-deepening swamp bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot(chiefly West), jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket difficulty, nodehot water, souppinch, plight, quandary, scrape, troubledeadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstillclutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait kettle of fish in 1624 |