sodden
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adjective- 1.
Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
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.”
- 2.
(archaic)Boiled.
- 3.
(figuratively)Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, line 560, You whoreson sodden headed sheepes-face […]
- 4.
(figuratively)Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance).
1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, London: T.N. Longman and L.B. Seeley, Letter 49, pp. 444-445, Of the music-girls, many are pretty featured, but carry in every lineament, the signs of their lamentable vocation: sodden complexions, feebly glossed over by artificial daubings of the worst colour […]
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To drench, soak or saturate.
1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret She had cooked for him a mutton-chop, which was soddening itself between two plates upon the little table near the fire.
- 2.
(intransitive)To become soaked.
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From Middle English sodden, soden, from Old English soden, ġesoden, from Proto-Germanic *sudanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (to seethe; boil). Cognate with sean, gezoden (related to zode swampy land), saden, söddt, gesotten, sjuden, soðinn. More at seethe.