0 past simple and past 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: --
Both had thin white hair and both wore thick, black-framed glasses that swamped their aged, wrinkled faces.
Their archives are swamped with unprocessed documentation and their institutes are jam-packed with crates full of finds.
These graphs predominantly exhibit a logarithmic increase over an exponential increase due to the fact that the air is becoming 'swamped' with charged species.
At that point, in late 1942, there were pitifully few psychiatrists on active duty, and they were already swamped with patients.
The text itself is short and inevitably somewhat swamped by the editorial apparatus.
Flowers, almost half wild, swamped by atrocious rain.
Or is situational variation altogether swamped by dialect variation?
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.
