0 present participle of swamp --
1 to cover a place or thing with a large amount of water: --
2 If something swamps a person, system, or place, more of it arrives than can be easily dealt with: --
The question of swamping the electorate should be considered.
Swamping consumers with information does not help them.
Even if output were to be increased, there would be the danger of swamping front-line squadrons with too many inexperienced pilots.
We are not talking about a swamping action but about a fairly small reduction.
If you ask doctors and dentists in the health service these days how they feel, many will say that bureaucracy is swamping them.
These services have been literally swamping our own.
I heard his explanation for the use of the word "swamping".
Tobacco smuggling is, to borrow a phrase, swamping this country.