[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

swamp \swamp\, v. t. imp.  p. p. swamped; p. pr.  vb. n.
   swamping.
   1. to plunge or sink into a swamp.
      1913 webster

   2. naut. to cause a boat to become filled with water; to
      capsize or sink by whelming with water.
      1913 webster

   3. fig.: to plunge into difficulties and perils; to
      overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
      1913 webster

            the whig majority of the house of lords was swamped
            by the creation of twelve tory peers. --j. r. green.
      1913 webster

            having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus
            of a theory.                          --sir w.
                                                  hamilton.
      1913 webster
see also:
swamped swamping 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

swamped
     adj 1: 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" syn: flooded, inundated, overcome, overpowered,
         overwhelmed, engulfed
see also:
flooded inundated overcome overpowered overwhelmed engulfed 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

59 moby thesaurus words for "swamped":
   afloat, aground, at flood, awash, bathed, castaway, deluged,
   dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned,
   engulfed, flooded, foundered, grounded, high and dry, immersed,
   in spate, inflood, inundated, macerated, marooned, on the rocks,
   oozing, overflowed, overwhelmed, permeated, saturated, seeping,
   set fast, shipwrecked, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden,
   soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, stranded,
   stuck, stuck fast, submerged, submersed, swept, washed,
   water-washed, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering,
   whelmed, wrecked, wringing wet

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Salon Money | Swamped
...... "swamped." It isn't just him. A lot of people use the word "swamped." ... You must be swamped, and you must learn to say the word with weary and ... ..
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