1. Low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
   "The expedition struggled to navigate through the dense swamp";
   - swampland
    
2. A situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
   "he was trapped in a medical swamp"

1. Make very wet or full of water
   "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbour";
   - drench
    
2. Fill or become beyond capacity with too large a volume of something
   "The images swamped his mind";
   - deluge, flood, inundate

Derived forms: swamps, swamping, swamped

Type of: fill, fill up, flood, situation, wetland

Encyclopedia: Swamp