sodden
UK/ˈsɒ.dən/US/ˈsɑ.dən/
sodden adjective: soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
Adjective
sodden (comparative more sodden, superlative most sodden)
- Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
- It is found, indeed, that meat, roaſted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ſodden than when coal is employed for that purpoſe.1810, James Millar, editor, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 4th edition, volume XII, page 702
- The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden.1895 February, James Rodway, “Nature's Triumph”, in The Popular Science Monthly, page 460
- Synonyms:
- dopping
- Boiled.
- The thirde [drynke] is of that kinde of hony named Pechmes, whiche is made of newe wine sodden, vntill the third parte be boyled awaye […]c. 1569, Bartolomej Georgijević, “The diuersities of their drinke”, in Hugh Gough, transl., The Ofspring of the House of Ottomanno and Officers Pertaining to the Greate Turkes Court, London: Thomas...
- […] howe Almidor the blacke King of Moroco was sodden to death in a cauldrone of boyling leade and brimstone.1596, Richard Johnson, chapter 14, in The Most Famous History of the Seaven Champions of Christendome, London: Cuthbert Burbie, page 131
- Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
- You whoreson sodden headed sheepes-face […]1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, line 560
- […] thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no
more brain than I have in mine elbows […]c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- Synonyms:
- drunk
- Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance).
- Remoue and march, soft and faire Gentlemen, soft and faire: double your files, as you were, faces about. Now you with the sodden face, keepe in there […]1613, Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: Walter Burre, act 5, scene 1
- Of the music-girls, many are pretty featured, but carry in every lineament, the signs of their lamentable vocation: sodden complexions, feebly glossed over by artificial daubings of the worst colour […]1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, London: T.N. Longman and L.B. Seeley, Letter 49, pp. 444-445
- Synonyms:
- blank, stonefaced
Verb
sodden (third-person singular simple present soddens, present participle soddening, simple past and past participle soddened)
- To drench, soak or saturate.
- She had cooked for him a mutton-chop, which was soddening itself between two plates upon the little table near the fire.1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
- But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC
- To become soaked.
sodden meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
sodden in Tamil
- முற்றும் நனை, முற்றும் நனைந்த
sodden in Malayalam
- ഈർപ്പം നിറഞ്ഞ, ഉദാസീനമായ, ചുറുചുറുക്കില്ലാത്ത, തിളപ്പിച്ച, നല്ലവണ്ണം കുതിർത്ത
sodden in Kannada
- ತೊಯ್ದ, ನೆನೆದ
Examples of sodden in a sentence
- In 2004, after heavy rain fell on sodden ground, floods put the line out of action from February until May.2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, page 61:
- Also before they burnt the fat, the priests seruant came, & said to the man that sacrificed, Giue flesh to roste for the priest, for he wil not haue sodden flesh of thee, but raw.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 2:13–15:
- I would have done too, but alcohol makes me so ill that I couldn't (I mention this to make it clear that I don't claim any moral superiority over my more sodden colleagues).2010, Peter Hitchens, The Cameron Delusion, page 79:
Synonyms of sodden
Forms of sodden
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more sodden |
| superlative | most sodden |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | soddens |
| present participle | soddening |
| past participle | soddened |
| past | soddened |
Origin of sodden
From Middle English sodden, soden, from Old English soden, ġesoden, from Proto-Germanic *sudanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (“to seethe; boil”). Cognate with West Frisian sean, Dutch gezoden (“seethed, boiled”) (related to Dutch zode (“swampy land”)), Low German saden, söddt, German gesotten, Swedish sjuden, Icelandic soðinn. More at seethe.
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Questions about sodden
- What does sodden mean?
- Sodden means soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
- What is sodden in Tamil?
- Sodden in Tamil is முற்றும் நனை, முற்றும் நனைந்த. See Sodden meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use sodden in a sentence?
- In 2004, after heavy rain fell on sodden ground, floods put the line out of action from February until May.
- What part of speech is sodden?
- Sodden can be an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce sodden?
- Sodden is pronounced /ˈsɒ.dən/ (UK).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sodden (page history and authors); sodden (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sodden (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sodden (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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