Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make (a boat, for example) heavy and unwieldy by flooding with water.
- transitive verb To saturate with water and make soggy or unusable.
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- verb transitive to make a
boat heavy and indanger ofsinking byflooding withwater - verb transitive to
saturate something with water
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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Plugged sewers, deluged tunnels and streets reverting to rivers will conspire to waterlog foundations and destabilize their huge loads, toppling structures.
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The green-scaled surface was swirled with oil-slick, orange and yellow in the patchy light, and pieces trash often floated in the middle, unnatural blossoms waiting to waterlog into the mud.
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He then sits in the sink and turns on the water and proceeds to waterlog the entire bathroom.
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When we come back, a torso suspected to be that of gorgeous young mom, 27-year-old Amy Giordano, found in waterlog suitcase.
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But if you're already time travelling -- why not go ahead a bit to find a good fire-suppression system that doesn't waterlog?
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It's pretty easy to grow, likes to dry out between waterings, though I've found that sometimes you can waterlog the roots and kill 'em.
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He then sits in the sink and turns on the water and proceeds to waterlog the entire bathroom.
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And back in the states, more rain drenchings already waterlog California.
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She had a small waterlog, but that would burn only in water.
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She had a small waterlog, but that would burn only in water.
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