sodden
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sodden
verb
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Synonyms & Antonyms for sodden
Synonyms: Adjective
awash, bathed, bedraggled, doused (also dowsed), drenched, dripping, logged, saturate, saturated, soaked, soaking, soggy, sopping, soppy, soused, washed, water-soaked, watered, waterlogged, watery, wet
Synonyms: Verb
bathe, bedraggle, douse (also dowse), drench, drown, soak, sop, souse, wash, water, water-soak, waterlog, wet, wet down
Antonyms: Adjective
arid, dry, unwatered, waterless
Antonyms: Verb
dehydrate, desiccate, dry, parch, scorch, sear
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Examples of sodden in a Sentence
Adjective
eyes peering out between strands of sodden hairVerb
soldiers' boots that were soddened by endless hours in muddy trenches cornflakes that had been soddened in milk to the point of mush
Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
The massive landslide buried the bunkhouse, and everyone in it, under 20 feet of sodden earth and uprooted trees. — Carlo Gabuco, National Geographic, "Death rituals help restless spirits find peace in the Philippines," 9 Apr. 2019 The story line also leaps forward in time; Anna Paquin joins the cast as Joanie, the now-adult daughter of Alison and Cole working as a coastal engineer in a sodden world decades into the future. — New York Times, "The Week in Arts: An End to ‘The Affair’; A Lincoln Center Horror Show," 17 Aug. 2019 The clichés, plot holes, and stilted dialogue would all be forgivable if there were more fight scenes, and if the show wasn’t so often soaked in its own sodden seriousness. — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, "Netflix’s Wu Assassins series lacks the Hong Kong cinema magic," 8 Aug. 2019 Arena’s coaching career also seemed to end prematurely when a pair of freak goals on a rain-sodden field in Trinidad derailed his efforts to quality the U.S. for another World Cup in the fall of 2017. — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, "Bob Bradley and Bruce Arena are MLS foes, but always friends," 3 Aug. 2019 Often, that trigger is the edge of a continent: along the west coast of North and South America, for instance, atmospheric rivers crash into mountains, which forces the sodden air masses higher into the atmosphere. — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, "‘Rivers in the sky’ are why California is flooding," 1 Mar. 2019 On day three, after 30 miles of mostly sodden trails, Kennedy finally made it through to the other side of the million-acre Big Cypress swamp. — Eric Barton, Outside Online, "This Florida Thru-Hike Is Not for the Faint of Heart," 10 July 2019 The air, scented by sodden socks and bug spray, sagged with humidity. — Dan Zak, Washington Post, "Evening in America: What it felt like on Trump’s 4th of July," 5 July 2019 The late-night sweeps that used to largely catch bleary-eyed partygoers and beer-sodden sports fans are now almost exclusively for the homeless. — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, "BART’s end of the line surges with homeless as misery plays out each night," 22 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Needless to say, with soils already sodden in the southeast, this would present a dire scenario for inland flooding. — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, "The Hurricane Florence forecast has gone from bad to worse," 12 Sep. 2018 Her first album in just as long is 20 minutes shorter than The Woman in Me, her multiplatinum 1993 breakthrough released at the height of her fire for Lange, and far less tethered to sodden balladry. — Dan Weiss, Billboard, "Shania Twain's 'Now': Not Quite Her 'Lemonade,' But Her First Album in 15 Years Couldn't Have Existed Without It (Critic's Take)," 4 Oct. 2017 Before the fire, the ground was a carpet of moss, huckleberry bushes, and sword and bracken ferns, and was usually sodden with rain for about nine months of the year or more. — Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian, "The National Parks Face a Looming Existential Crisis," 14 Sep. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sodden.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.