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Meanings of sodden in English

Wet through and through; thoroughly wet.

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Usage of sodden in English
1
The government men were hauling a sodden docker from the polluted waters.
Artemis Fowl
2
The ground, the bushes, the very outhouses seemed sodden with the rain.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
3
Her wet skirts clung to her; her shoes were sodden and heavy.
K
4
The satanic cunning of the proposal was lost upon his sodden intellect.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest
5
They struck with sodden thuds against the bodies of the struggling sophomores.
The Young Pitcher
6
The sodden weather wouldn't allow him to put fire to the woods.
Sons of the Oak
7
It moved with sure, fleeting motions across the sodden tar and clay.
Perdido Street Station
8
The crocuses were beginning to thrust their spears through the sodden mold.
Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
9
The place half full and most every soul in the house sodden.
The Irish Times
10
Sleeping-bags and tent-cloth were soon in a wretched state, sodden with moisture.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
11
They were wrapped in cloaks, but cloaks and uniforms alike were sodden.
The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation's Crisis
12
I thought of the rain going down, down to the sodden coffins.
I capture the castle
13
We get sordid and sodden, and we lose the proportions of life.
The Judgment House
14
Soft and light though it was, the park began to look sodden.
The Shuttle
15
I see nothing of the lake, nothing but mist and sodden hills.
At Love's Cost
16
The sodden philanthropist must have his hands free to spend more money.
The Wrong Twin
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Sodden across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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