swamp

Noun

• a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
  • he was trapped in a medical swamp
    

• low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

Verb

• fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
  • the basement was inundated after the storm
    
  • The images flooded his mind
    

• drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
  • The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  swampland , deluge , flood , inundate , drench