Sodden

Quick meaning: Sodden is an adjective meaning Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.

Meaning

Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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

Word Forms

• soddens
• soddening
• soddened

Synonyms for sodden

Depending on context, synonyms include dopping, waterlogged, drunk, blank, stonefaced, wet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include soppy, sopping, drenched, soaked, wet, soaking.

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