Sodden

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: sod=den

CIDE DICTIONARY

Sodden, a. 

 Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.  [1913 Webster]

Sodden, v. i. 

 To be seethed; to become sodden.  [1913 Webster]

Sodden, v. t. 

 To soak; to make heavy with water.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Sodden, adj. & v.
--adj.
1 saturated with liquid; soaked through.
2 rendered stupid or dull etc. with drunkenness.
3 (of bread etc.) doughy; heavy and moist.
--v.intr. & tr. become or make sodden.

Derivative

soddenly adv. soddenness n.

Etymology

archaic past part. of SEETHE

THESAURUS

Sodden

addled, awash, bathe, bathed, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, brew, crapulent, crapulous, deluged, dipped, dizzy, douche, drench, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drouk, drowned, drunk, drunken, engulfed, fallen, far-gone, flooded, flush, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, glorious, happy, imbrue, imbue, immersed, impregnate, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, infiltrate, infuse, inject, intoxicated, inundated, jolly, lave, leach, lixiviate, macerate, macerated, maudlin, mellow, merry, muddled, nappy, not done, oozing, overflowed, percolate, permeate, permeated, rare, reeling, rinse, saignant, saturate, saturated, seeping, seethe, shikker, soak, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, soggy, sop, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, sotted, souse, soused, steep, steeped, submerged, submersed, swamped, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence, undercooked, underdone, wash, waterlog, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, whelmed, wringing wet

ROGET THESAURUS

Sodden

Moisture

N moisture, moistness, humidity, humectation, madefaction, dew, serein, marsh, hygrometry, hygrometer, moist, damp, watery, madid, roric, undried, humid, sultry, wet, dank, luggy, dewy, roral, rorid, roscid, juicy, wringing wet, soaking wet, wet through to the skin, saturated, swashy, soggy, dabbled, reeking, dripping, soaking, soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy, swampy, irriguous.

Calefaction

N calefaction, increase of temperature, heating, calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction, melting, fusion, liquefaction, burning, ambustion, combustion, incension, accension, concremation, cremation, scorification, cautery, cauterization, ustulation, calcination, cracking, refining, incineration, cineration, carbonization, cupellation, ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration, deflagration, conflagration, empyrosis, incendiarism, arson, auto dafe, boiling, coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation, decoction, ebullioscope, geyser, distillation (vaporization), furnace, blanket, flannel, fur, wadding, clothing, still, refinery, fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower, match, incendiary, petroleuse, cauterizer, caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa, acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia, catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid, radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium, sunstroke, coup de soleil, insolation, pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china, earthenware, stoneware, pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker, cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot, slag, coke, carbon, charcoal, wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil, gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel), wax, paraffin, residue, tar, inflammability, combustibility, diathermancy, transcalency, conduction, convection, radiation, radiant heat, heat conductivity, conductivity, thermal expansion, coefficient of expansion, heated, molten, sodden, r_echauff_e, heating, adust, inflammable, combustible, diathermal, diathermanous, burnt, volcanic, radioactive.