verb
definition
To drench, soak or saturate.
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To become soaked.
adjective
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Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
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Boiled.
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Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
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Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance)
Examples of sodden in a Sentence
It shall be sodden and eaten, and in the morning they should go to their tents.
In the Deuteronomist the lamb is to be sodden or boiled, whereas in the Priestly Code this is expressly forbidden.
The roots should never be suffered either to get thoroughly dry or to get sodden with excess of water.
Clothes, saddles, reins, were all wet, slippery, and sodden, like the ground and the fallen leaves that strewed the road.
Two industries have for centuries been associated with the barren heaths and sodden fens so usually found together on the sand-grounds, namely, the cultivation of buckwheat and peatdigging.
It was a dark night and the ground was sodden with rain.
The French halted, somewhat loosened by pursuit, between Rossomme and Genappe and spent a wretched night in the sodden fields.
When he espied Denisov he hastily threw something into the bushes, removed his sodden hat by its floppy brim, and approached his commander.
If there be any sour or sodden or effete soil into which the roots have not run, this should be carefully picked out with a pointed stick.
The heavy rain, which had delayed the commencement of the action, had swollen the Bistritz so as to check their advance and thus postpone the decision, whilst the mist and driving rain hid the approaching troops from the Austrian gunners, whose shells burst almost harmlessly on the sodden ground.
It's horrible stuff when it gets all sodden with sweat.
I suffocate in the smell of sodden earth. Can you ignore me just like that, friend? Stop it, I retort.
It was completely unable to take off when it spotted me as it was so sodden !
Her clothes were thin, already sodden with dampness from snow earlier in the day.
It was completely unable to take off when it spotted me as it was so sodden!
This is easy to assess, if the diaper is absolutely sodden in the morning then you need to boost.
Water them with a copper fungicide solution until the compost is damp, not sodden.
Our clothing and footwear, such as we possessed, became sodden with sweat.
Often, in freezing weather, the sodden roots can actually dislodge tiles.
At last my sodden shirt came free from the grating with a damp ripping sound.
He stood in front of the fire, sodden clothes steaming.
At this point, the heavy rain became torrential and large pools of water began appearing on the already sodden pitch.
Then it would pounce, pummeled me into the sodden ground.
Many of the well sodden fields had small ponds due to all the rain.
It 's horrible stuff when it gets all sodden with sweat.
The turbo trainer has lost its attraction as the cast gets sodden inside when I spin and reality TV is rife on the box !
The rider stood there, completely sodden; stinking black mud covering him from head to toe.
Saturday 7th September was the final date with the weather only slightly better both teams put on an excellent show in sodden conditions.
Not wanting to run in the sodden trousers from the day before I was reduced to wearing just waterproof ones.
On the 10th day of the month every household shall take a firstling male without blemish, of sheep or goat, and should kill it on the 14th at even, and sprinkle the two sideposts and lintel with the blood, and eat the roasted flesh, not sodden, including head, legs and inwards; all remaining over until the morning to be burnt by fire.
It was therefore put off first of all until 9 A.M., and later until 11.30, to permit the sodden ground to dry sufficiently for the mounted arms to manoeuvre freely and give time to the French army to close up. During the night the emperor had received a report from Marshal Grouchy, dated Gembloux, 10 P.M., 17th, which stated that the Prussians were retiring in two columns towards Wavre and Perwez.
The sodden, tattered autumn leaves come falling one by one, The bronze and red chrysanthemums are glowing in the sun.
The turbo trainer has lost its attraction as the cast gets sodden inside when I spin and reality TV is rife on the box!