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Definition of sodden in English: soddenadjective ˈsɒd(ə)nˈsɑdn 1Saturated with liquid, especially water; soaked through. Example sentencesExamples - The surface was playable but a sodden pitch ensured passes either held up in standing water or skidded off the wet.
- Disappointment was the order of the day on Saturday last, as the planned Teddy Bears Picnic has to be called off due to a downpour on Friday night, which left the park in a dangerous and sodden condition.
- Pink streamers swirled from my sodden jeans, tendrils of crimson whipping off into the water burbling around my boots.
- Dew soaked grass and rain sodden leaves stubbornly refuse to give up their moisture, allowing the walker to squelch his way across the murky landscape.
- I found the sodden mess in the laundry, saturated to the point where I tried to put them on, but for fear of contracting instantaneous pneumonia I decided against it.
- Mike looked out of the door at the sodden figure dancing joyously in the water from the sprinklers.
- At 4.30 pm, when the referee squelched across the sodden turf, the odds seemed to be on the match being postponed because of the underfoot conditions.
- Shaking my head, I stood shakily to my legs and stumbled over to the water, taking off my sodden shirt and placing it on the ground next to me.
- Next we see him stretched out by a tiny fire, pulling off sodden boots, thick socks caked with dirty water which has started to harden.
- The fields, hillsides and dips in the land were freshly green from recent rain, occasionally dotted with brick houses or sheep, marked out in plots with fences, grey sodden hedges or small trees.
- As the car whizzes along the highway, Sonia stares out at the sodden fields.
- After six hours the pump had done its job, and there was a slushy sodden mass of tree-seeds and brackish water, and the pump was making a sound like a Jarvik heart filled with oatmeal.
- The white water rushing over her skin, her sodden clothes dragging her down towards the rocks.
- Thus they went, a sopping sodden mess, each following the other out of the Square past the tall pines of the Mission and the Officers bedraggled salute.
- I stripped off my sodden socks and my snowsuit, already reeking of wet wool, and left them on the radiator.
- From where I was standing I could make out a thick ring of sodden weeds that enclosed a smaller circle of deep water.
- With mid-Atlantic states left sodden by an unusually wet summer, the winds toppled trees and rains flooded creeks and low-lying areas.
- The boy watched with curiosity as the burnt, sodden pieces of wood peeked out of the water, unmoving.
- Customers sloshed through inch-deep water at the door and across a sodden rug to wait at least 45 minutes for burritos and chalupas.
- The desaturated colours and muddy, rain sodden English countryside creates an air of foreboding entirely appropriate for a work that is more serious than its title suggests.
Synonyms soaking, soaking wet, soaked, soaked through, wet through, saturated, drenched, sopping (wet), dripping (wet), wringing (wet), streaming waterlogged, soggy, saturated, sopping (wet) boggy, swampy, miry, fenny, oozy, marshy heavy, squelchy, soft rare quaggy - 1.1in combination Having drunk an excessive amount of a particular alcoholic drink.
verbˈsɒd(ə)nˈsɑdn [with object]archaic Saturate (something) with water. the rains have soddened the earth Example sentencesExamples - An incoming tide soddens a dropped garment which cannot comfortably be resumed and is often abandoned to be carried out by the receding tide.
- River and watercourse levels rocketed which led to homes and businesses being soddened, 15 schools closed and the emergency services at full stretch.
- Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire.
- If the fish be a little more than half covered with water, and gradually brought to boil, then well covered down with your sauce-pan lid, and boiled gently till done, it will eat much richer, have a finer flavor, and be more firm than if cooked the old way, or rather drowned in water, which only soddens fish, and takes away the fine firmness so much prized.
Synonyms sprinkle, moisten, dampen, wet, spray, splash
Derivatives adverb Actually, despite its soddenly melodramatic moments, a lot of About a Boy is quite funny. Example sentencesExamples - In the 15th round the next day, before 16,000 unbelieving customers, Jim Jeffries sank soddenly to the canvas, his once awesome right draped over the lower rope of the ring.
- The 11 tracks on his 12 th album plod soddenly, leaden of pace and bleak of atmosphere.
- During that day and night the men slept soddenly, side by side on the boxcar door.
- He dragged open the door with great effort, then clung to its edge with one clenched hand, his body slumped soddenly to one side.
noun ˈsɒd(ə)nnɪs Turning soddenness into a virtue, the plan would channel water into dozens of brooks and reflecting pools, waterfalls and wetlands. Example sentencesExamples - A woman next to me said, ‘I love its soddenness, its mundanity.
- In the monsoon's soddenness, often it's hard to drink enough water.
- It's on a dead-end street, the ball field is practically unusable due to soil soddenness.
- But I'm definitely not commenting on any soddenness in the writing itself, just painfully reviewing the sad state of our books after our first ever flooding a week or so ago.
Origin Middle English (in the sense 'boiled, cooked by boiling'): archaic past participle of seethe. Rhymes Culloden, hodden, modern, trodden Definition of sodden in US English: soddenadjectiveˈsɑdnˈsädn 1Saturated with liquid, especially water; soaked through. Example sentencesExamples - At 4.30 pm, when the referee squelched across the sodden turf, the odds seemed to be on the match being postponed because of the underfoot conditions.
- The desaturated colours and muddy, rain sodden English countryside creates an air of foreboding entirely appropriate for a work that is more serious than its title suggests.
- Pink streamers swirled from my sodden jeans, tendrils of crimson whipping off into the water burbling around my boots.
- The boy watched with curiosity as the burnt, sodden pieces of wood peeked out of the water, unmoving.
- From where I was standing I could make out a thick ring of sodden weeds that enclosed a smaller circle of deep water.
- After six hours the pump had done its job, and there was a slushy sodden mass of tree-seeds and brackish water, and the pump was making a sound like a Jarvik heart filled with oatmeal.
- The surface was playable but a sodden pitch ensured passes either held up in standing water or skidded off the wet.
- Customers sloshed through inch-deep water at the door and across a sodden rug to wait at least 45 minutes for burritos and chalupas.
- Next we see him stretched out by a tiny fire, pulling off sodden boots, thick socks caked with dirty water which has started to harden.
- The white water rushing over her skin, her sodden clothes dragging her down towards the rocks.
- As the car whizzes along the highway, Sonia stares out at the sodden fields.
- Dew soaked grass and rain sodden leaves stubbornly refuse to give up their moisture, allowing the walker to squelch his way across the murky landscape.
- Shaking my head, I stood shakily to my legs and stumbled over to the water, taking off my sodden shirt and placing it on the ground next to me.
- I stripped off my sodden socks and my snowsuit, already reeking of wet wool, and left them on the radiator.
- With mid-Atlantic states left sodden by an unusually wet summer, the winds toppled trees and rains flooded creeks and low-lying areas.
- I found the sodden mess in the laundry, saturated to the point where I tried to put them on, but for fear of contracting instantaneous pneumonia I decided against it.
- Thus they went, a sopping sodden mess, each following the other out of the Square past the tall pines of the Mission and the Officers bedraggled salute.
- Mike looked out of the door at the sodden figure dancing joyously in the water from the sprinklers.
- Disappointment was the order of the day on Saturday last, as the planned Teddy Bears Picnic has to be called off due to a downpour on Friday night, which left the park in a dangerous and sodden condition.
- The fields, hillsides and dips in the land were freshly green from recent rain, occasionally dotted with brick houses or sheep, marked out in plots with fences, grey sodden hedges or small trees.
Synonyms soaking, soaking wet, soaked, soaked through, wet through, saturated, drenched, sopping, sopping wet, dripping, dripping wet, wringing, wringing wet, streaming waterlogged, soggy, saturated, sopping, sopping wet - 1.1in combination Having drunk an excessive amount of a particular alcoholic drink.
a whiskey-sodden criminal
verbˈsɑdnˈsädn [with object]archaic Saturate (something) with water. Example sentencesExamples - If the fish be a little more than half covered with water, and gradually brought to boil, then well covered down with your sauce-pan lid, and boiled gently till done, it will eat much richer, have a finer flavor, and be more firm than if cooked the old way, or rather drowned in water, which only soddens fish, and takes away the fine firmness so much prized.
- River and watercourse levels rocketed which led to homes and businesses being soddened, 15 schools closed and the emergency services at full stretch.
- Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire.
- An incoming tide soddens a dropped garment which cannot comfortably be resumed and is often abandoned to be carried out by the receding tide.
Synonyms sprinkle, moisten, dampen, wet, spray, splash
Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘boiled, cooked by boiling’): archaic past participle of seethe. |