swamped with work

Examples

• All

• - I’m swamped with work.

  Beaches (1988)

• Personal journeying is not what ordinary folks, swamped with work and kids and grief and laughter—and weighed down by the additional burden of racism—have tended to do.

  Blog text (12)

• You said you were gonna be swamped with work anyway.

  Veronica Mars (2014)

• We are swamped with work, and it is all technology.

  Blog text (20)

• I would love to, sweetheart, I just am swamped with work.

  No Letting Go (2016)

• However, such legends were well received... ...and I was swamped with work all the time as a result.

  Dominion (2018)

• Tony Crowther, now swamped with work, did his best to make sure that no more armed Arabs entered the city.

  Fiction book (1993)

• I made the mistake of pointing out that I let him text me first, and he hadn't even realized it... so he might be waiting to see how long I'll wait for him to contact me, or he might be swamped with work, school, and kids.

  Blog text (2)

• Or maybe they've just been swamped with work and haven't had as much time as they wished to look over applications, but then they say, "Hey!

  Blog text (20)

• The team is swamped with work due to the upcoming deadline.

Synonyms

B

busy

vsswamped with work

∞ 1.0

Full of activity with many things to do

is overwhelmed by excess tasks rather than simply having a lot to do

F

to flooded with

vsswamped with work

27 3.5

To get more things than you can handle

is about being overwhelmed specifically by work or tasks rather than anything

O

overworked

vsswamped with work

23 3.5

To work too much and feel very tired or stressed

is overwhelmed by too many tasks rather than by long-term fatigue

H

to have one's hands full

vsswamped with work

• Informal

23 3.9

To be very busy with many tasks

is overwhelmed by excess tasks rather than just fully occupied

U

up to one's ears

vsswamped with work

• Informal

1 6.9

Very busy with work or tasks and feeling overwhelmed

is overwhelmed by sheer volume rather than by deep involvement

B

busy as a bee

vsswamped with work

• Informal

1 3.4

Working very hard all the time

is overwhelmed by too much work rather than working willingly and industriously

R

rushed off one's feet

vsswamped with work

• Informal

1 7.9

Very busy with too many things to do

is overwhelmed by total amount of tasks rather than by hurried pace

D

to drink from a firehose

vsswamped with work

• Informal

9.1

To get more information or tasks than you can handle

is overwhelmed by large ongoing amounts of tasks rather than sudden bursts

D

drowning in paperwork

vsswamped with work

• Informal

6.2

Having too much paperwork to handle

is overwhelmed by work generally rather than only administrative tasks

O

overbusy

vsswamped with work

6.1

So busy with many tasks that you cannot rest or take breaks

is overwhelmed by a large amount of tasks rather than simply overly occupied

U

up to one's neck in alligators

vsswamped with work

• Informal

9.6

Very busy dealing with many difficult problems

is overwhelmed by work tasks rather than mainly by difficult problem situations

B

backlogged

vsswamped with work

5.5

Having a lot of work waiting to be done

is overwhelmed by current incoming work rather than by accumulated waiting tasks

Antonyms

U

unburdened

1 5.5

Not having worries or responsibilities

U

underloaded

5.7

A vehicle or machine carrying less weight than usual

How Overwhelmed

overstressed

2 5.1

swamped with work

• Informal

1 4.4

overloaded

3 4.2

busy

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology