Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- 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.
- A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.
Verbit
- To drench or fill with water.
- To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
Esimerkit
- The boat was swamped in the storm.
- I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.
- Mr. Spitzer’s defeat of his Democratic opponent ... ended a primary season in which Hillary Rodham Clinton swamped an antiwar challenger for renomination to the Senate.
- The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.
- Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory[...]
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