Swamping

noun, verb

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Definitions

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

    "Before the report’s arrival on Friday, the consequences of global warming had been epically imagined — New Orleans-style swampings by superstorms, the specter of an Arctic meltdown and a water gush that would block heat-toting currents in the Atlantic Ocean and trigger an abrupt European cool-down."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of swamp form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"China is swamping the world with its products."

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