Crossword-Solution: SWAMPED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Swamped | imp. & p. p. | of Swamp |
We have 17 clues for the answer “SWAMPED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Overwhelmed, as with work | 1 answer |
| Overwhelmed with work, say | 1 answer |
| Having way too much on one's plate | 1 answer |
| Up to one's eyeballs | 2 answers |
| Up to one's ears (in) | 2 answers |
| Overwhelmed with work | 4 answers |
| Deluged | 4 answers |
| Extremely busy | 4 answers |
| learnt | 5 answers |
| Underwater | 13 answers |
| brimful | 13 answers |
| slopping | 13 answers |
| Flooded | 27 answers |
| Saturated | 42 answers |
| laden | 49 answers |
| overwhelmed | 72 answers |
| awash | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SWAMPED (5)
That minute’s interval had brought the blood beating into her face, set her stinging as if aflame to the very hollows of her feet, and enlarged emotion to a compass which quite swamped thought.
Used to imply that a program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent of gold leaf and curlicues that they have completely swamped the underlying design.
The lower strata of the middle class—the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen and peasants—all these sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialized skill is rendered worthless by the new methods of production.
Then one morning the two young men had themselves rowed out to Torcello, and Roderick lay back for a couple of hours watching a brown-breasted gondolier making superb muscular movements, in high relief, against the sky of the Adriatic, and at the end jerked himself up with a violence that nearly swamped the gondola, and declared that the only thing worth living for was to make a colossal bronze and set it aloft in the light of a public square.
Will civilisation be swamped by barbarism? It happened once before, because the civilised were tiny specks of light in the midst of darkness.
Quotes with SWAMPED (3)
The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides.
Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something- otherwise why was it there? Why was anything anything?
This, not incidentally, is another perfect setting for deindividuation: on one side, the functionary behind a wall of security glass following a script laid out with the intention that it should be applied no matter what the specific human story may be, told to remain emotionally disinvested as far as possible so as to avoid preferential treatment of one person over another - and needing to follow that advice to avoid being swamped by empathy for fellow human beings in distre…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1999–2024).