sodden
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6.0
- adjective
- /ˈsɑːdən/
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- The sodden carpet in the basement smelled musty from the water damage.
- sodden clothes
- sodden leaves
- sodden earth
Examples
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The trees along the street looked sodden, their spring glory dimmed.
Fiction book (1994) -
"Love them," Holly said, forking up a mouthful and chewing the cold, sodden pancakes with enthusiasm.
Fiction book (1991) -
By the time the children are up, it has become a muggy, sodden spring day.
Fiction book (1996) -
The skies were clouded, and the earth was sodden and turning to mud.
Fiction book (1993) -
When the flood receded, the family returned to discover their home a sodden, uninhabitable mess.
Academic text (1993) -
Look at the ground: sodden sycamore leaves lolloped about the road like injured toads.
Academic text (2010) -
Treading water, her sodden skirts still threatening to drag her under, Larissa glanced around.
Fiction book (1992) -
Several of the men onshore were clad in sodden buckskins, hatless, their hair flattened with dampness.
Fiction book (1994) -
After the heavy rain, the ground was sodden and muddy, making it hard to walk.
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She wrung out her sodden clothes after accidentally falling into the lake.
Synonyms
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1.0
Covered with liquid so it is not dry
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1.9
Very wet, soft ground that is often muddy after rain
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3.4
Completely soaked with liquid so it cannot absorb any more
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3.2
Completely wet, with water going through your clothes and reaching your skin
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3.9
Completely wet, for example from rain or sweat
Completely wet and heavy with water
Very wet and full of water like clothes after heavy rain
Very wet and soaked through with water
Very wet and full of water
So wet that water falls from it
Antonyms
How Wet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sodden is an old word meaning 'completely soaked' or 'very wet'. A helpful way to remember it is to link it to the common verb soak, because both talk about being full of water, so a sodden cloth is literally soaked.