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Synonyms
swamp (swŏmp, swômp)

[Perhaps of Low German origin.]

noun 

    1. A seasonally flooded bottomland with more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog.
    2. A lowland region saturated with water.
  2. A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables: a financial swamp.

verb: swamped, swamp·ing, swamps. 

transitive verb 

  1. To drench in or cover with or as if with water.
  2. To inundate or burden; overwhelm: She was swamped with work.
  3. Nautical To fill (a ship or boat) with water to the point of sinking it.

intransitive verb 

To become full of water or sink.

derivatives

swamṕi·ness
noun
swamṕy
adjective