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swamped

adverb as in aground

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Organized money swamped organized people (in fairness not all outside money was right-wing).

No one in Washington listened, and Sequoyah was swamped by the establishment of Oklahoma in 1907.

The Daily Pic: In 1913, New Yorker Robert Winthrop Chandler was a successful radical, until he got swamped by Matisse and Duchamp.

The couple were swamped with phone-waving well-wishers and extra police had to be called in at one stage as numbers swelled.

But in the past decade the city of less than 60,000 inhabitants has been swamped with over 20 million visitors each year.

The wave caused by the explosion swamped the submarine and it and its crew found a watery grave.

The waves ran high and the boats were in great danger of being swamped.

I thought we were swamped as I clung desperately to the tiller, though thrown violently against the boom.

He might have been swamped by an uprising of the whole convention, but strange to say the convention was intent upon hearing him.

Had our craft been a dug-out boat, as I originally intended it to be, we must inevitably have been swamped.

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On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to swamped, such as: active, unavailable, working, buried, employed, and engaged.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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