swamped
泥沼狀的
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.
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]