Sodden Definition

sŏdn
soddens
adjective
Boiled or steeped.
Webster's New World
Filled with moisture; soaked through.
Webster's New World
Heavy or soggy from improper baking or cooking.
Webster's New World
Dull or stupefied, as from liquor.
Webster's New World
Unimaginative; torpid.
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verb
soddens
To make or become sodden.
American Heritage
To make or become sodden.
Webster's New World

To drench, soak or saturate.

Wiktionary
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Origin of Sodden

  • Middle English soden boiled past participle of sethen to boil seethe

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English, from Old English soden, past participle of seoþan (“to cook", "to boil")

    From Wiktionary

Sodden 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.

  • 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.

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Words Starting With

SSOSOD

Words Ending With

NENDEN

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Words Starting With S and Ending With N

Starts With S & Ends With NStarts With SO & Ends With NStarts With S & Ends With EN

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With S6 Letter Words Ending With N