sodden

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When I had been on the loose for a week the country became very flat and sodden -- water was everywhere.

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  1. adjective Thoroughly soaked; saturated.
  2. adjective Soggy and heavy from improper cooking; doughy.
  3. adjective Expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink.
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  • The marquess rose from the pond, sodden, his hair plastered to his head. —  Karen Harbaugh - [Cupid -1] - Cupid's Mistake
  • Not only was the bar in an appalling state—its carpet sodden, the legs of its furniture inch-deep in brown sludge—but there would be no draught beer for those coming to Shelton Rugby Football Club that evening. —  Magazine - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - 2007-03 - March April
  • The politicians shall be sodden, the States escape, please God! —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
  • It was sodden, and contained something which he apparently had wrapped in it while under water. —  156 - Se-Pah-Poo
  • His fur was sodden, and it was a struggle drawing breath in the damp heat. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#215
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soggy ·  tattered ·  wet ·  muddy ·  damp ·  char ·  shapeless ·  moist ·  greasy ·  dusty ·  rumple ·  snowy
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English soden, boiled, past participle of sethen, to boil; see seethe.

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  1. from Middle English sodden, soden, from Anglo-Saxon soden: see seethe.
  2. from sodden, p. a.
  3. from sod + -en.
 

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