- Archaic boiled or steeped
- filled with moisture; soaked through
- heavy or soggy from improper baking or cooking: said as of bread
- dull or stupefied, as from liquor
Origin of sodden
obsolete past participle of seethe to make or become sodden
adjective
- The definition of sodden is something soggy or soaked.
- An example of sodden is a cake that hasn't been baked long enough.
- An example of sodden is a dripping wet sponge.
- Sodden is defined as to make something soaked or soggy.
An example of sodden is leaving lawn sprinklers on all night; to sodden the lawn.
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sodden
adjective
- Thoroughly soaked; saturated.
- Soggy and heavy from improper cooking; doughy.
- Expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink.
- Unimaginative; torpid.
verb
sod·dened, sod·den·ing, sod·denstr. & intr.v.
To make or become sodden.
Origin of sodden
Middle English soden boiled past participle of sethen to boil ; see seethe .Related Forms:
- sod′den·ly
adverb
- sod′den·ness
noun
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Adjective
(comparative more sodden, superlative most sodden)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present soddens, present participle soddening, simple past and past participle soddened)
Origin
From Middle English, from Old English soden, past participle of seoþan (“to cook", "to boil")
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Sentence Examples
- 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.
- 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.
- The roots should never be suffered either to get thoroughly dry or to get sodden with excess of water.
- Behind them along the narrow, sodden, cutup forest road came hussars in threes and fours, and then Cossacks: some in felt cloaks, some in French greatcoats, and some with horsecloths over their heads.
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