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swamps out

swamps out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 swamps out

What is swamps out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Swamps out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of swamp out.

Words near swamps out in the dictionary

  1. swamplife
  2. swamplike
  3. swampprivet
  4. swampprivets
  5. swamps
  6. swamps out
  7. Swampscott
  8. swampsful
  9. swampside
  10. swampsides
  11. swampwatcher

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swamps 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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