swamp

A swamp is a low area of land that is always or sometimes saturated with water. (noun)

An example of a swamp is the Okefenokee swamp located in Georgia and Florida.

Swamp means to be sunk or overwhelmed. (verb)

An example of to swamp is a supervisor giving their employee a ton of work to do.

See swamp in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a piece of wet, spongy land that is permanently or periodically covered with water, characterized by growths of shrubs and trees; marsh; bog

adjective

of or native to a swamp

transitive verb

to plunge or sink in a swamp, deep water, etc.
to flood or submerge with or as with water
to overcome or overwhelm; ruin: swamped by debts
to sink (a boat) by filling with water
☆ to make (a path) or clear (an area) by removing underbrush and slash, as in logging

intransitive verb

to become swamped; sink in or as in a swamp

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See swamp in American Heritage Dictionary 4

swamp

noun

a. A seasonally flooded bottomland with more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog.
b. A lowland region saturated with water.
A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables: a financial swamp.

verb swamped, swamp·ing, swamps

verb, transitive