swamp

1. (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.Examples: "I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system."; ""I'm being swamped now with calls from parents and young people who are upset that there are not many options for employment this summer," he said."; "Mr. Spitzer’s defeat of his Democratic opponent […] ended a primary season in which Hillary Rodham Clinton swamped an antiwar challenger for renomination to the Senate."figuratively

2. (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.Examples: "The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers."; "Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory[…]"figuratively

3. (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.Examples: "Nothing to it but clearing out underbrush and limbs so teams can get to the logs. […] If anyone asks, just tell him you've swamped roads ever since you was big enough to lift a hatchet."; "I guess I've done it all. Drove teams, drove grabs (device used to fasten a trail of logs together), swamped (cleared the ground of underbrush and fallen trees for road construction)."; ""Hayburners," or horses, their "teamsters," and oxen driven by their "bullwhackers," all became outmoded, as did "crosspoling" logs across trails to make them sturdy and "swamping," or cutting, new trails to "snake" logs out of the forest."Appalachia