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2. Noun. An act of swamping (drenching or filling with water). ¹

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Definition of Swamping

1. swamp [v] - See also: swamp

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swamping

Literary usage of Swamping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Soils: Their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1921)
"swamping of Alkali Lands.—It should, however, be remembered that the Damping of alkali lands, whether of the white or black kind, is fatal not only to their ..."

2. Soils: Their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1906)
"swamping of Alkali Lands.—It should, however, be remembered that the swamping of alkali lands, whether of the white or black kind, is fatal not only to ..."

3. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1889)
"... to be useless—The swamping effects of intercrossing—Isolation as preventing intercrossing—Gulick on the effects of isolation—Cases in which isolation is ..."

4. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1889)
"... character proved to be useless—The swamping effects of intercrossing—Isolation as preventing intercrossing— Gulick on the effects of isolation—Cases in ..."

5. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1890)
"... to be useless—The swamping effects of intercrossing—Isolation as preventing intercrossing—Gulick on the effects of isolation—Cases in which isolation is ..."

6. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1891)
"... character proved to be useless—The swamping effects of intercrossing—Isolation as preventing intercrossing— Gulick on the effects of isolation—Cases in ..."

7. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"Frantic Conduct of Passengers,—swamping of the Boats.—Children Trodden Under Foot. —Writhing in the Heat.—Shrieks and Cries.—Being Roasted Alive. ..."

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