单词 | swamping |
释义 | > as lemmasswamping swamping adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [noun] > action or process soak1598 drenching1626 sobbing1664 saturation1732 flooding1799 swamping1802 drench1807 water-soaking1849 soddening1852 soakage1867 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > very wetting > flooding swamping1802 the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > greater number, majority > pressure exerted by weightc1500 swamping1802 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs flume1784 log-rollinga1792 drive1835 river-driving1843 river drive1845 sluice-way1851 sacking1860 timber drivea1861 skidding1877 log-running1878 skid road1880 rigging1897 swamping1902 log-drivea1904 high lead1905 high-lining1919 1802 W. Scott Let. 17 Oct. (1937) XII. 220 Besides the risque of swamping..and breaking my neck. 1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. I. iv. 340 Many..were drowned by the swamping of one of the vessels. 1871 J. G. Whittier Sisters xiii In peril from swamping sea Or lee shore rocks. 1891 Law Times 92 74/2 The swamping of the ecclesiastical element in the House of Lords. 1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail vi. 45 Old man Heath was a veteran woodsman who had come to swamping in his old age. < as lemmas |
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