sodden
Adjective Satellite
- wet through and through; thoroughly wet
- "the speaker's sodden collar"
Adj
- Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
- Boiled.
- Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
- Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance).
Verb
Verb Forms: soddened, soddening, soddens
- To make thoroughly soaked or soggy.
- To drench, soak or saturate.
- To become soaked.
Examples
- A long string of low-scoring words can sodden a player’s morale in Scrabble.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
soppy, blank, dopping, drunk, stonefaced, waterlogged, wet
Scrabble Score: 8
sodden: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsodden: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sodden: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary