waterlogged Definition
water·logged (-lôgd′)
adjective
- soaked or filled with water so as to be almost awash, and heavy and sluggish in movement: said of boats or floating objects
- soaked with water; swampy or spongy
waterlogged Usage Examples
Preposition: since
deposition: Immediately fringing the tidal zone there may be sediments that have remained waterlogged since deposition and are classified as raw gley soils.
Preposition: in
- winter: Make sure the pot doesn't become waterlogged in winter.
- weather: Neither will they tolerate exposed windy positions, nor a soil which tends to become waterlogged in wet weather ).
Modifies a noun
- pitch: On a waterlogged pitch, a player places the ball for a penalty kick to the side of the penalty mark.
- peat: Some techniques for trial excavations in waterlogged peat are also presented.
- soil: Some plants are able to live in waterlogged soil.
- deposit: Here, waterlogged deposits were located in the ditch adjacent to the prehistoric round house.
- wood: In some cases, where the ground is waterlogged, wood may have survived.
- timber: Adam's research interests lie principally in alluvial archeology, waterlogged timber and later prehistoric landscapes.
Modifying Another Word
- seasonally: Avoid permanently or seasonally waterlogged patches, in which posts will not hold firm.
- permanently: The moisture content will be calculated at various depths to assess whether the area remains permanently waterlogged.
- too: Unfortunately the weather intervened and the occasion had to be canceled as the site was just too waterlogged.
- often: Away from the river, the clay is exposed with a large area of deep, heavy soils which are often waterlogged in winter.
- so: The fields were so waterlogged a lot of the tractors couldnât be used.
- very: We know some of them were camping in the very waterlogged campsite on the edge of the village.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Make sure the pot doesn't become waterlogged in winter.
- remain: The moisture content will be calculated at various depths to assess whether the area remains permanently waterlogged.
- get: There are several ways of draining a lawn which gets waterlogged.
- have: The three months of rain have waterlogged the ground and built up the water table.
- bring: Many facets of and mhpi projects could bring waterlogged.
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