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Definition: Swamped |
SwampedAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "swamped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Synonyms: SwampedSynonyms: engulfed (adj), flooded (adj), inundated (adj), overcome (adj), overpowered (adj), overwhelmed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited; foiled; defeated; struck down, borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with; ploughed, plowed, plucked. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Swamped |
| English words defined with "swamped": drench ♦ swamp. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "swamped": Common Gateway Interface. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped! (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) | |
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 | Running speed trials off the Maine coast, 1906. Photographed by Enrique Muller. Note sailors crowding the rails, watching the photographer's boat, which is about to be swamped by the battleship's bow wave. Credit: NAVY. |  | Swamped!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In the conditions of the proletariat, those of old society at large are already virtually swamped. (reference) |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We cannot win that race if we're swamped in a sea of red ink. |
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| "Swamped" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 76.11% of the time. "Swamped" is used about 247 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 76.11% | 188 | 22,417 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 21.86% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.02% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 247 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "swamped": be swamped ♦ be swamped in ♦ be swamped with ♦ flooded inundated swamped. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
swamped | 10 |
grumbling instead swamped | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "swamped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kam shumë (be swamped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | затънал съм (be swamped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 陷入沼泽 (Swamping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | být zaplavený (be submerged, be swamped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | überschwemmte (deluged, flooded, inundated), überfordert (overcharges, overextends). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyakig van vmiben (to be swamped), ki se látszik vmiből (to be swamped), elfoglalt (busy, engaged, engrossed, occupied, to be swamped, to be tied up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 침수되어 가라앉". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ampedsway заваливать заваленный. (various references) biti zaglibljen u (be swamped in), biti preplavljen (be swamped). (various references) fylld med vatten. (various references) gömülmek (be buried, be swamped with, dive, sink, sink into), batmak (be in carey street, be on the wane, be swamped with, belly up, break, burst up, cave, crash, decline, dip, fail, founder, go bankrupt, go down, go over the cliff, go to rack and ruin, go under, gravitate, hang, plunge, set, sink, slide into, submerge, swim like a brick, wane), başından aşmak (be swamped with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Swamped" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: samoed, scamped, swampe, swamper, swampped, swaned, swaped. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "swamped" (pronounced swÄ"mpt) |
| 4 | -Ä" m p t | prompt, stomped. |
| 3 | -m p t | attempt, bumped, camped, clamped, contempt, cramped, crimped, damped, decamped, dumped, encamped, exempt, humped, jumped, limped, lumped, plumped, preempt, pumped, revamped, slumped, stamped, stumped, tempt, thumped, trumped, unkempt. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-p-s-w" | |
-2 letters: dames, damps, mawed, meads, pawed, sawed, spade, spaed, swamp, wades, wames. | |
-3 letters: amps, aped, apes, apse, awed, awes, dame, damp, dams, daps, daws, dews, made, mads, maes, maps, maws, mead, mesa, mews, pads, pams, pase, paws, peas, peds, pews, sade, same, samp, seam, smew, spae, spam, sped, spew, swam, swap, wade, wads. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-p-s-w" | |
+2 letters: wampished. | |
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