ALL meanings of swamping
swamp
S s - noun swamping a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation. 1
- verb with object swamping to flood or drench with water or the like. 1
- verb with object swamping Nautical. to sink or fill (a boat) with water. 1
- verb with object swamping to plunge or cause to sink in or as if in a swamp. 1
- verb with object swamping to overwhelm, especially to overwhelm with an excess of something: He swamped us with work. 1
- verb with object swamping to render helpless. 1
- verb with object swamping to remove trees and underbrush from (a specific area), especially to make or cleave a trail (often followed by out). 1
- verb with object swamping to trim (felled trees) into logs, as at a logging camp or sawmill. 1
- verb without object swamping to fill with water and sink, as a boat. 1
- verb without object swamping to sink or be stuck in a swamp or something likened to a swamp. 1
- verb without object swamping to be plunged into or overwhelmed with something, especially something that keeps one busy, worried, etc. 1