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swamped out

swamped out is the simple past and past participle of swamp out.

Meaning of swamp out

Verb

swamp out (third-person singular simple present swamps out, present participle swamping out, simple past and past participle swamped out)

  1. To clean or tidy, especially a place that is very messy.
    • The room hadn't been swamped out in memory of man, and it smelled strongly of stale cigarette smoke and vomit.1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 58
  2. To overwhelm or outnumber.

Questions about swamped out

What is swamped out the simple past and past participle of?
Swamped out is the simple past and past participle of swamp out.

Words near swamped out in the dictionary

  1. swampbusters
  2. swampbusting
  3. swampdragon
  4. swampdragons
  5. swamped
  6. swamped out
  7. swamper
  8. swampers
  9. swampful
  10. swampfuls
  11. swamphen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swamped out (page history and authors); swamp out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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