sodden
IPA: sˈɑdʌn
verb
- (transitive) To drench, soak or saturate.
- (intransitive) To become soaked.
adjective
- Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
- (archaic) Boiled.
- (figuratively) Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
- (figuratively) Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance).
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Examples of "sodden" in Sentences
- Her clothes are sodden with water.
- Will these sodden skies ever clear
- Denounce your vinegar sodden ways now.
- Victoria becomes the sodden state of Australia.
- The blankets used as stretchers were sodden with blood.
- The only thing that it abhors is permanently sodden ground.
- The race itself started in heavy rain and on a sodden track.
- In reporter-editor patois, “fine” is a word sodden with contempt.
- Sodden oxhide roofs had begun to rot and the smell was overpowering.
- That said, the production feels a little sodden, as if dampened by humidity.
- The doorbell rang and as Sarah answered it, she was greeted by a sodden David.
- The streets were filled with a new and different race of people, short of stature, and of wretched or beer-sodden appearance.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.