Difference between Swamped and Submerged

What is the difference between Swamped and Submerged?

Swamped as a verb is to drench or fill with water. while Submerged as a verb is to sink out of sight.

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?

We hope you now know whether to use Swamped or Submerged in your sentence.

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