| 单词 | sodden |
| 释义 | sodden (once / 3058 pages) adj Pull out your galoshes. When it's been raining for days, there are puddles everywhere, and the grass is thoroughly soaked, it's safe to say the ground is sodden. Coming from the Middle English word for "boiled," sodden is certainly closely tied with lots and lots of liquid. Saturated, soppy and soaking, anything that's sodden is drenched to the core and probably a mess. That goes for people, too: You can call someone sodden if they're acting stupid or dull, especially if they've had too much to drink. WORD FAMILYsodden: soddenly USAGE EXAMPLESNo, it’s his drive in Brazil, at sodden Interlagos, which caught the eye more than any of his other sensational performances. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) He played gigs in psychiatric hospitals and invited thousands of sodden, exhausted revellers at the Isle of Wight festival to light matches in the rain. The Guardian(Nov 11, 2016) The biggest embarrassment of this campaign has been the sodden pundits who kept insisting on taking oh-so-seriously his every remark. Wall Street Journal(Nov 09, 2016) adj wet through and through; thoroughly wet the speaker's sodden collar Syn soppy wet covered or soaked with a liquid such as water |
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