1. n. A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
2. n. A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.
3. v. To drench or fill with water.
The boat was swamped in the storm.
4. v. To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.
5. v. (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
1. n. (Originally Irish & Scottish) An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
2. n. (figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
3. n. The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
4. n. (Ireland) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
5. n. (AU & NZ colloquial) An act or instance of defecation.
6. n. (US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
7. v. (transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
8. v. (figuratively) to prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
9. v. (intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
10. v. (figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
11. v. (intransitive originally coarse UK now chiefly AU) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
12. v. (transitive originally coarse UK now chiefly AU) To cover or spray with excrement.
13. v. (transitive, British, informal) To make a mess of something.
14. n. (obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
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