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swamping out

swamping out is the present participle and gerund 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 swamping out

What is swamping out the present participle and gerund of?
Swamping out is the present participle and gerund of swamp out.

Words near swamping out in the dictionary

  1. swampier
  2. swampiest
  3. swampily
  4. swampiness
  5. swamping
  6. swamping out
  7. swampings
  8. swampish
  9. swampishness
  10. swampland
  11. swamplander

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swamping 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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