swamping

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of swamp

noun

1. An act of swamping (drenching or filling with water).

   “Before the report’s arrival on Friday, the consequences of global warming had been epically imagined — New Orleans-style swampings by superstorms, the specter of an Arctic meltdown and a water gush that would block heat-toting currents in the Atlantic Ocean and trigger an abrupt European cool-down.”