Swamp \Swamp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Swamping.]

1. To plunge or sink into a swamp. [1913 Webster]

2. (Naut.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water. [1913 Webster]

3. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck. [1913 Webster]

The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers. --J. R. Green. [1913 Webster]

Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

59 Moby Thesaurus words for "swamped": afloat, aground, at flood, awash, bathed, castaway, deluged, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, flooded, foundered, grounded, high and dry, immersed, in spate, inflood, inundated, macerated, marooned, on the rocks, oozing, overflowed, overwhelmed, permeated, saturated, seeping, set fast, shipwrecked, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, submerged, submersed, swept, washed, water-washed, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wrecked, wringing wet

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

swamped adj
1: sunk by being filled with water; "a swamped boat"
2: rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; "a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work" [syn: flooded, inundated, overcome, overpowered, overwhelmed, engulfed]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Swamp \Swamp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Swamping.]

1. To plunge or sink into a swamp.

2. (Naut.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

3. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers. --J. R. Green.

Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory. --Sir W. Hamilton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)