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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 swamping
 沼澤化

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.