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waterlogged

waterlogged adjective: soaked with water.

Adjective

waterlogged (comparative more waterlogged, superlative most waterlogged)

  1. Soaked with water.
    • The sudden inundation from the remnants of Ida transformed familiar scenes of life in New York into otherworldly and waterlogged chaos on Wednesday night.2021 September 1, Michael Levenson, Anne Barnard, “Scenes from New York City as Ida paralyzes region”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2021
    • On a cold morning in Abilene, Texas, a column of 18-wheelers crawls down bumpy, waterlogged roads, past cattle grazing on dusty shrubs.2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time
    Synonyms:
    drenched
  2. In danger of sinking because of excess water onboard.

waterlogged meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi and Vietnamese

waterlogged in Tamil

நீருறிய, நீர் தேங்கிய

waterlogged in Kannada

ಜಲಭರಿತವಾದ, ಜಲಮಯ, ನೀರು ನಿಂತಿರುವ, ಜಲಾವೃತ, ನೀರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಳುಗಿದ

waterlogged in Punjabi

waterlogged, soggy, sodden
ਸੇਮ ਮਾਰਿਆ sem māriā

waterlogged in Vietnamese

soaked with water
ngập nước, úng nước

Examples of waterlogged in a sentence

  • The match was rained off because of the waterlogged pitch.
  • In an attempt to alleviate the problem, wooden planking, known as duckboards, was placed at the bottom of trenches and across other areas of muddy or waterlogged ground.
  • The wind gusted through, shivering me, so that my waterlogged brogans were like ice against my feet.

All 13 example sentences with waterlogged

Synonyms of waterlogged

Forms of waterlogged

comparativemore waterlogged
superlativemost waterlogged

Origin of waterlogged

From waterlog + -ed.

Words formed from waterlogged

Questions about waterlogged

What does waterlogged mean?
Waterlogged means soaked with water.
What is waterlogged in Tamil?
Waterlogged in Tamil is நீருறிய, நீர் தேங்கிய. See Waterlogged meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is waterlogged?
Waterlogged is an adjective.

Words near waterlogged in the dictionary

  1. waterlines
  2. waterling
  3. waterlings
  4. waterlocked
  5. waterlog
  6. waterlogged
  7. waterloggedness
  8. waterlogging
  9. waterloggings
  10. waterloggogenic
  11. waterlogs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: waterlogged (page history and authors); waterlogged (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); waterlogged (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸੇਮ ਮਾਰਿਆ (Punjabi) (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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