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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典
 swamped
 泥沼狀的
From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Swamp v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swamped p. pr. & vb. n. Swamping.]
 1. To plunge or sink into a swamp.
 2. Naut. To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
 3. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
    The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.   --J. R. Green.
    Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory.   --Sir W. Hamilton.
From: 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]