0 present participle of swamp
2 If something swamps a person, system, or place, more of it arrives than can be easily dealt with:
Moreover, these intellectuals expressed tremendous fear about the possible swamping of the individual by the mass, of the unique by the universal.
For all our (practical) reasons are subject to the same swamping by an invisible hinterland of remote effects.
On the adaptive value of reproductive synchrony as a predator swamping strategy.
The difficulty was the sheer size and ubiquity of that class, which meant that any franchise to which they could realistically aspire risked swamping every other interest.
Fast and frugal heuristics can reduce overfitting by ignoring the noise inherent in many cues and looking instead for the "swamping forces" reflected in the most important cues.
The problem appears to be almost universally swamping people in coastal areas, which is shocking.
Suddenly we hear about swamping and immigration and so on.
Tobacco smuggling is, to borrow a phrase, swamping this country.
