/swɒmp ||; swɑmp/verb[T] 1 to cover or fill sth with water 使充满水；淹没: The fishing boat was swamped by enormous waves. 渔船被巨浪淹没。
2 swamp sb/sth (with sth) (usually passive 通常用于被动语态) to give sb so much of sth that he/she cannot deal with it 使不胜负荷: We've been swamped with applications for the job. 工作申请书多得使我们穷于应付。 [SYN] inundate 同义词为inundate