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Drown vs Swamp - What's the difference?

drown | swamp |

As verbs the difference between drown and swamp

is that drown is to be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation while swamp is to drench or fill with water.

As a noun swamp is

a piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.

drown

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.
  • To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
  • To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
  • To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out".
  • * Sir J. Davies
  • most men being in sensual pleasures drowned
  • * Addison
  • My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
  • To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass.
  • ''The CIA gathers so much information that the actual answers it should seek are often drowned in the incessant flood of reports, recordings, satellite images etc.

    Derived terms

    * drowned * drowner * drowning * drown one's sorrows * drown out

    Synonyms

    * (overwhelm) flood

    References

    swamp

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia swamp) (en noun)
  • A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
  • A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.
  • Derived terms

    * swamp gum * swampland * swamp wallaby * swampy

    See also

    * bog * marsh * moor

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To drench or fill with water.
  • The boat was swamped in the storm.
  • To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
  • I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.
  • * 2006 , New York Times,
  • 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.
  • (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
  • * J. R. Green
  • The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.
  • * W. Hamilton
  • Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory