Lexic.us

Definition of Sodden

1. Adjective. Wet through and through; thoroughly wet. "Soppy clothes"

Definition of Sodden

1. a. Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.

2. v. i. To be seethed; to become sodden.

3. v. t. To soak; to make heavy with water.

Definition of Sodden

1. Adjective. soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated ¹

2. Adjective. (figuratively) stupid as a result of drunkenness ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To drench, soak or saturate. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To become soaked. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sodden

1. to make soggy [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: soggy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sodden

Literary usage of Sodden

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Many leaves had fallen, and iv sodden and decaying in the garden path, and the few remaining flowers looked as if they only lingered to bid us a last ..."

2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... his liver smoky, his lungs dried up, insomuch that he verily believed his soul was either sodden or roasted through the vehemency of love's fire. ..."

3. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... his liver smoky, his lungs dried up, insomuch that he verily believed his soul was either sodden or roasted through the vehemency of love's fire. ..."

4. The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc (1902)
"The night at Firenzuola, the morning (the second morning of this visitation) still cold, still heartless, and sodden with the abominable weather, ..."

5. John Brown by William Elsey Connelley (1900)
"... Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs Be strung to city gates and cattle walls, Yet still their spirits stalk abroad. ..."

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