Sodden

/ˈsɒ.dən/ · adjective

Meaning

Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated..

Definitions by Sense

1. Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
2. (archaic) Boiled.
3. (figuratively) Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
4. (figuratively) Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance).
5. (transitive) To drench, soak or saturate.
6. (intransitive) To become soaked.

Example Sentences

2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”

It is found, indeed, that meat, roaſted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ſodden than when coal is employed for that purpoſe.

The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden.

In 2004, after heavy rain fell on sodden ground, floods put the line out of action from February until May.

The thirde [drynke] is of that kinde of hony named Pechmes, whiche is made of newe wine sodden, vntill the third parte be boyled awaye […]

[…] howe Almidor the blacke King of Moroco was sodden to death in a cauldrone of boyling leade and brimstone.

And the priests custome with the people was, that when any man offred sacrifice, the priestes seruant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhooke of three teeth in his hand, And he strooke it into the panne, or kettle, or caldron, or pot: all that the flesh-hooke brought vp, the priest tooke for himselfe: so they did in Shiloh vnto all the Israelites that came thither. Also before they burnt the fat, the priests seruant came, & said to the man that sacrificed, Giue flesh to roste for the priest, for he wil not haue sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, line 560, You whoreson sodden headed sheepes-face […]

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• more sodden
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• soddens
• soddening
• soddened

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