2 If something swamps a person, system, or place, more of it arrives than can be easily dealt with:
5 to have too many of something, or to give someone too much to do:
We’ve been swamped with emergencies today.
6 to have too many of something, or give someone too much to do:
In the rainy season in particular, potholes, floods, swamps and filth make it extremely difficult for cars and trucks to ply the roads.
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.
Prisoners tried to drink the water in swamps along the railway line, dipping strips of cloth torn off shirts.
Coastal mangrove swamps around the northern and southern shores of the harbour were almost completely cleared.
With the development of larger swamps and lakes, some marked changes can be recognized in the megaflora.
Once migration exceeds a critical level, migration swamps selection, and the two demes become genetically homogeneous and migration can no longer maintain genetic variation.
Large remnant trees were used, but the iron smelters by then consistently ventured into the swamps to obtain supplementary fuel.
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