Sodden

Word SODDEN
Character 6
Hyphenation sod den
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Sodden"

What do we mean by sodden?

Thoroughly soaked; saturated. adjective

Soggy and heavy from improper cooking; doughy. adjective

Expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink. adjective

Unimaginative; torpid. adjective

To make or become sodden. transitive & intransitive verb

To be seethed or soaked; settle down as if by seething or boiling.

To become soft, as by rotting.

To soak; fill the tissues of with water, as in the process of seething; saturate.

Of sods; soddy.

Boiled; seethed.

Soaked and softened, as in water; soaked through and through; soggy; pulpy; pultaceous; of bread, not well baked; doughy.

Having the appearance of having been subjected to long boiling; parboiled; bloated; soaked or saturated, as with drink.

To be seethed; to become sodden. intransitive verb

Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated. past participle

To soak; to make heavy with water. transitive verb

Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated adjective

Stupid as a result of drunkenness adjective

To drench, soak or saturate. verb

To become soaked. verb

Wet through and through; thoroughly wet adjective

To drench, soak or saturate.

To become soaked.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Sodden

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The word "sodden" in example sentences

In reporter-editor patois, “fine” is a word sodden with contempt. ❋ Gene Weingarten (2010)

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel showed that poor attempt at flight with the reconstructed Wright flyer on his late night show -- I noticed that the re-enactor was on a too-short track, at a too-steep pitch, in sodden weather, and didn't have two men holding up the wing tips, unlike the Wrights -- it was a recipe for mud-diving, which he did. ❋ Michael Evans (2003)

Her bigger repertoire of spins and superior defense were too much for the occasion-stricken Safina, whose drives lacked their usual pace in the sodden clay and who sent imploring and frustrated looks to her team in the players 'box as the contest wore on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They are rinsing the salt from fishing nets and kimonos, drying sodden books, and scrubbing the bone tools with toothbrushes then treating them with alcohol to prevent mold and mildew from growing. ❋ Gordon Fairclough (2011)

The machinery of the war ravaged our earth from the sodden fields of north-western France to the shattered forests of Russia, from the charred sands of the Middle East to the burning grasslands of Africa. ❋ O'Brien Browne (2011)

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan—When the storage vault of this city's ruined library was finally cut open after the tsunami, the historic books inside had been reduced to sodden, mud-coated lumps. ❋ Gordon Fairclough (2011)

Walk around the house and be sure to move piles of sodden leaves or wet firewood well away from your home. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He saw the red-smeared blade come out the other side as it pierced sinew and muscle then sunk deep into the sodden ground. ❋ Ricardo Federico (2011)

José Mourinho was frustrated by a "ghost goal" and a fateful penalty shoot-out; Avram Grant by the most implausible of slips from John Terry at a sodden Luzhniki Stadium; and Guus Hiddink by the erratic decision making of Tom Henning Ovrebo. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In a world sodden with motivational cobblers which regularly commits grievous bodily harm against the English language, we can be forgiven for being hostile to this sort of stuff. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Clinton's venerable psychedelic funk ensemble was clad in typically weird and wild gear ranging from full-length white furry pimp coats, capes, Egyptian headdresses and multi-colored dreadlocks, and they mesmerized the sodden crowd with extended workouts on Tear the Roof Off This Sucker and Red Hot Mama. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Out in the slanting rain Daemus scanned the sodden camp perched along the steep slopes, rows of small tents rendered insignificant by the backdrop of hilltops and ridges stretching to the nebulous gray horizon. ❋ Ricardo Federico (2011)

Forty rooms file off it, some of them so damp that they are filled today with stalagmites and stalactites formed by calcium dripping from the sodden concrete. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I spent my childhood outside in the garden and the fields around it, and you know, every single tree has a memory, every single plant is sodden with emotional content. ❋ Helen Young Chang (2011)

The streets were filled with a new and different race of people, short of stature, and of wretched or beer-sodden appearance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The tournament referee, Brian Earley, who has not played a blinder over the past sodden week of rain rows and court changes, said: "The chair umpire made a correct call under the intentional hindrance rule." ❋ Unknown (2011)

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