- so soaked or filled with water as to be heavy and sluggish in movement and barely afloat: a waterlogged rowboat
- soaked with water; swampy or spongy
waterlogged
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waterlogged
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- Nautical Heavy and sluggish in the water because of flooding, as in the hold: a waterlogged ship.
- Soaked or saturated with water: waterlogged fields; waterlogged docking.
Origin of waterlogged
water logged past participle of log 1 to accumulate (water) in a shipTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Adjective
(comparative more waterlogged, superlative most waterlogged)
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