overwhelmed by a large amount of something, or flooded with water as if in a swamp.
From 'swamp,' possibly from Powhatan Algonquian 'pocomtough' or a similar Algonquian word for a boggy place. English colonists adopted the word from Native American languages.
The word 'swamp' came into English directly from Native American languages, showing how colonists learned to name unfamiliar landscapes. Many American geographical words (like 'moose' and 'toboggan') come straight from indigenous languages.
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