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as in to flood
to cover with a flood
the boat was swamped by the huge wave has been swamped with paperwork since she returned from vacation
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as in to overwhelm
to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress
parents feeling swamped by work and family obligations
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as in pickle
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape
with her credit cards maxed out, and the making of minimum payments a challenge, debt seemed to be an ever-deepening swamp
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Recent Examples of swamp
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
10 June 2026
Monday afternoon was hot, too, in the 90s in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale areas, with humidity making the feels-like temperatures swamp us as if in triple digits.
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Howard Cohen
june 1,
Miami Herald,
1 June 2026
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 June 2026
From the pine forests and black swamps to the marsh flats and on to the Gulf, the refuge burgeons with life in ways hard to explain to someone who hasn’t been there.
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Jeff Vandermeer,
Travel + Leisure,
11 June 2026
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Verb
But once again, a big pop would generate a fee-swamping flood of soft dollars.
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Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
10 June 2026
Monday afternoon was hot, too, in the 90s in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale areas, with humidity making the feels-like temperatures swamp us as if in triple digits.
—
Howard Cohen
june 1,
Miami Herald,
1 June 2026
Noun
Bright orange milkweed aphids (Aphis nerii) usually emerge toward the end of summer and feed in clusters on the stems and leaves of common milkweed, swamp milkweed, and other milkweed plants.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 June 2026
From the pine forests and black swamps to the marsh flats and on to the Gulf, the refuge burgeons with life in ways hard to explain to someone who hasn’t been there.
—
Jeff Vandermeer,
Travel + Leisure,
11 June 2026
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Thousands of Dutch fans flooded the streets of Monterrey, Mexico, ahead of the Netherlands' World Cup match against Morocco in the round of 32 tonight.
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In the weeks since the show premiered, memes and unauthorized merch capturing Patricia’s dispassionate delivery, heroic shotgun wielding, and jerky dance moves have flooded the internet.
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Cold water shock impairs breathing and can overwhelm even strong swimmers within seconds.
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Along the highway linking Caracas to the coast, streams of civilians carried water, food, and medicine toward La Guaira on foot and by motorcycle, stepping in as the scale of the disaster overwhelmed the official effort.
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Hike, walk, run or bike the flat trails at Cochran Shoals, with beautiful views of the Chattahoochee River, plenty of woods and marshes to explore, and a few 5K training loops.
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Kadis said among the strategy’s proposals is a blue carbon credit program that would fund carbon-absorbing coastal wetlands, marshes and mangroves.
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Start with the Single Smash, layered with griddled onions, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, and smash sauce, then explore variations from there, including a falafel smash for vegetarians.
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The dog can also be served in a classic Chicago-style, topped with mustard, relish, onion, tomato, celery salt, sport peppers and pickle.
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Westeros will be engulfed in flames as the Dance of the Dragons sweeps away knights riding their mighty creatures and entire armies.
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The sun itself will undergo this transformation in around 5 billion years, swelling out to around the orbit of Mars and engulfing the inner rocky planets, including Earth.
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Rather than be benched, Devers batted cleanup, overcame an 0-for-3 start, and singled up the middle in the seventh to score Bryce Eldridge, who narrowly beat a tag at the plate for a 3-1 lead.
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Its highly specialized strategy likely evolved to take advantage of the ant’s natural aggression and then overcome its defenses; the slingshot mechanism flings the ant from the foraging trail, reducing the risk that the spider will be swarmed by other workers, the researchers hypothesized.
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Instead, the idea is to lock in preservation protections for the 17,000 acres of wetlands surrounding the facility.
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The land where the Lincoln Memorial sits used to be mudflats and wetlands, but now its Reflecting Pool became home to a historically large algae bloom filled with jagged clumps of blue industrial paint.
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The upshot of Yale’s report, which is by far the most self-critical of the three, is that administrators bear much of the responsibility for higher education’s current predicament.
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What to read next Once the initial excitement of weightlessness has worn off, the kids realize the true extent of their predicament.
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“Swamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swamp. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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