swamp

1. 1.

   drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

   “The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor”

   Synonymsdrench

   Broaderflood
2. 2.

   fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

   “the basement was inundated after the storm”

   “The images flooded his mind”

   Synonymsdelugefloodinundate

   Broaderfill

Other forms of swamp

plural

swamps·

past tense

swamped·

present participle

swamping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about swamp

What does swamp mean?

swamp means "low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swamp?

swamp has 1 syllable: swamp. In IPA it is /ˈswɑmp/.

What is another word for swamp?

Close synonyms include swampland, drench, deluge, flood, inundate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swamp a common word?

swamp is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.