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soddening

soddening is the present participle and gerund of sodden.

Meaning of sodden

Verb

sodden (third-person singular simple present soddens, present participle soddening, simple past and past participle soddened)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (intransitive) To become soaked.

See all 6 meanings of sodden

Questions about soddening

What is soddening the present participle and gerund of?
Soddening is the present participle and gerund of sodden.

Words near soddening in the dictionary

  1. sodcasts
  2. sodded
  3. sodded off
  4. sodden
  5. soddened
  6. soddening
  7. soddenly
  8. soddenness
  9. soddens
  10. sodder
  11. soddered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soddening (page history and authors); sodden (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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