Sodden
['sɒd(ə)n] or ['sɑdn]
Definition
(adj.) wet through and through; thoroughly wet; 'stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain'; 'the speaker's sodden collar'; 'soppy clothes' .
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Definition
(-) of Seethe
(imp. & p. p.) of Sod
(p. p.) Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.
(v. i.) To be seethed; to become sodden.
(v. t.) To soak; to make heavy with water.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Boiled, decocted, stewed.[2]. Soaked, steeped, drenched, thoroughly wet (so as to be soft).
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Definition
pa.p. of seethe boiled: soaked thoroughly: boggy: doughy not well baked: bloated saturated with drink.—n. Sod′denness.—adj. Sod′den-wit′ted (Shak.) heavy stupid.
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Examples
- We have rain, and our leaves do fall, and get sodden: though I think Helstone is about as perfect a place as any in the world. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The moon was set, and it was very dark; Bessie carried a lantern, whose light glanced on wet steps and gravel road sodden by a recent thaw. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A crude gift of nature, in the mountain side, it remained, however, a sodden mass until extracted, refined, and wrought into shape by the genius of man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We continued our systematic survey of the edge of the sodden portion of the moor, and soon our perseverance was gloriously rewarded. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yes--try, repeated Mary gently; and Mary's hand removed my sodden bonnet and lifted my head. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It not infrequently takes place among heaps of rags, wool and cotton when sodden with oil; hay and straw when damp or moistened with water; and coal in the bunkers of vessels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the middle of it, clearly marked on the sodden soil, was the track of a bicycle. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- My clothes were all sodden with dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded thumb. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It said I was changed: my cheeks and lips were sodden white, my eyes were glassy, and my eyelids swollen and purple. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They were sodden, as were his socks and trouser-bottoMs. But he himself was quick and warm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The landscape outside was black and winter-sodden. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then they heard the noise of hand grenades heavy and sodden in the dry rolling of the automatic rifle fire. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It had ceased to rain, but the earth was sodden, and the pools and rivulets were full. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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