0 past simple and past participle of swamp
2 If something swamps a person, system, or place, more of it arrives than can be easily dealt with:
Whatever the content of the text, it might be swamped on the night - and the number of performances was limited.
The moderates as a group were aware that they could be swamped.
Thus, as the political sphere is swamped by the economics of globalisation where will the alternative power bases come from?
Overall though, the incentive offered by the redistribution had little impact in reducing care-home admissions and appeared to be swamped by longterm factors.
Next day the ice had gone but heavy surf swamped the dinghy.
The 'richly habited' baby is completely swamped by her noble surroundings.
Sequence stratigraphy is a discipline swamped in terminology, making many wary.
When the specific input is strong it will have a powerful influence; when it is weak, it may be swamped by the other system dynamics.
