Swamped
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To drench or fill with water.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: very busy; having too much to do
Example sentence: This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from.
Submerged
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To sink out of sight.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Something that is underwater.
Example sentence: Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?