1. [n]  low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
2. [n]  a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp"
3. [v]  fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
4. [v]  drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"

Swamp
Thomas Todd, the son of a wealthy sugar planter, is always taunting and belittling Sara Winslow, a half-Cajun girl whose family lives on land owned by Thomas`s father. But when he goes alligator hunting on a dare and finds himself in grave danger, Sara is the only one who can save his life--and her own.

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1. \Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D.
   zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv["o]ppr, Dan. &
   Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.]
   Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but
   not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the
   seashore.
         Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern.
                                                  --Tennyson.
         A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing
         trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only
         herbage, plants, and mosses.             --Farming
                                                  Encyc. (E.
                                                  Edwards,
                                                  Words).
   {Swamp blackbird}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Redwing}
   (b) .
   {Swamp cabbage} (Bot.), skunk cabbage.
   {Swamp deer} (Zo["o]l.), an Asiatic deer ({Rucervus
      Duvaucelli}) of India.
   {Swamp hen}. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird ({Porphyrio bellus});
       -- called also {goollema}.
   (b) An Australian water crake, or rail ({Porzana Tabuensis});
       -- called also {little swamp hen}.
   (c) The European purple gallinule.
   {Swamp honeysuckle} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Azalea, or
      Rhododendron, viscosa}) growing in swampy places, with
      fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with
      rose; -- called also {swamp pink}.
   {Swamp hook}, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling
      logs. Cf. {Cant hook}.
   {Swamp itch}. (Med.) See {Prairie itch}, under {Prairie}.
   {Swamp laurel} (Bot.), a shrub ({Kalmia glauca}) having small
      leaves with the lower surface glaucous.
   {Swamp maple} (Bot.), red maple. See {Maple}.
   {Swamp oak} (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak
      which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak
      ({Quercus palustris}), swamp white oak ({Q. bicolor}),
      swamp post oak ({Q. lyrata}).
   {Swamp ore} (Min.), bog ore; limonite.
   {Swamp partridge} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several Australian
      game birds of the genera {Synoicus} and {Excalfatoria},
      allied to the European partridges.
   {Swamp robin} (Zo["o]l.), the chewink.
   {Swamp sassafras} (Bot.), a small North American tree of the
      genus {Magnolia} ({M. glauca}) with aromatic leaves and
      fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet
      bay}.
   {Swamp sparrow} (Zo["o]l.), a common North American sparrow
      ({Melospiza Georgiana}, or {M. palustris}), closely
      resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy
      places.
   {Swamp willow}. (Bot.) See {Pussy willow}, under {Pussy}.
   

2. \Swamp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swamped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Swamping}.]
   1. To plunge or sink into a swamp.
   2. (Naut.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to
      capsize or sink by whelming with water.
   3. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to
      overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
            The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped
            by the creation of twelve Tory peers. --J. R. Green.
            Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus
            of a theory.                          --Sir W.
                                                  Hamilton.
   

3. \Swamp\, v. i.
   1. To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become
      involved in insuperable difficulties.
   2. To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to
      capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be
      wrecked.
   

1. Spongy land; low ground filled with water; a wooded area having surface water much of the time.
2. Tree or tall shrub dominated wetlands that are characterized by periodic flooding and nearly permanent subsurface water flow through mixtures of mineral sediments and organic materials, essentially without peat-like accumulation.