<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to flood or drench with water or the like.</li><li>Nautical. to sink or fill (a boat) with water.</li><li>to plunge or cause to sink in or as if in a swamp.</li><li>to overwhelm, especially to overwhelm with an excess of something: He swamped us with work.</li><li>to render helpless.</li><li>to remove trees and underbrush from (a specific area), especially to make or cleave a trail (often followed by out).</li><li>to trim (felled trees) into logs, as at a logging camp or sawmill.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to fill with water and sink, as a boat.</li><li>to sink or be stuck in a swamp or something likened to a swamp.</li><li>to be plunged into or overwhelmed with something, especially something that keeps one busy, worried, etc.</li></ul>