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Dictionary: sod·den   (sŏd'n) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Thoroughly soaked; saturated.
  2. Soggy and heavy from improper cooking; doughy.
  3. Expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink.
  4. Unimaginative; torpid.

v., -dened, -den·ing, -dens.

tr. & intr.v.
To make or become sodden.

[Middle English soden, boiled, past participle of sethen, to boil. See seethe.]

soddenly sod'den·ly adv.
soddenness sod'den·ness n.

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adjective

  1. Covered with or full of liquid: soggy, sopping, soppy, wet. See dry/wet.
  2. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor: besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, tipsy. Informal cockeyed, stewed. Slang blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheetsintothe wind. See drugs/temperance.

verb

    To make thoroughly wet: douse, drench, saturate, soak, sop, souse, wet. See dry/wet.

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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Soaked. Also: Sluggish.

pronunciation My shoes became sodden the more we ran around on the wet field.

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: wet through and through; thoroughly wet
  Synonyms: drenched, saturated, soaked, soaking, sopping, soppy


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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - gennemblødt, gennemtrukket med væske, opblødt af væske, klæg, svampet, træg, sløv, halvsløj
v. tr. - gennembløde
v. intr. - blive gennemblødt

Nederlands (Dutch)
doorweekt, doorweekt raken, doorweken

Français (French)
adj. - trempé, détrempé, (fig) abruti de
v. tr. - tremper, détremper
v. intr. - tremper, détremper

Deutsch (German)
adj. - durchnäßt
v. - durchnäßt werden, durchnässen

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - μουλιασμένος, λειψανάβατος, κοιμήσης
v. - μουσκεύω, αποβλακώνω

Italiano (Italian)
fradicio, inzuppare

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - encharcado (m), ensopado (m), mal cozido
v. - empapar, encharcar

Русский (Russian)
промокший, пропитанный влагой, плохо пропеченный, переваренный, пьяный, погрязший, одутловатый, тупой, пропитывать, намокать

Español (Spanish)
adj. - empapado, mal cocido, embrutecido por el alcohol
v. tr. - empapar, mojar
v. intr. - mojarse, empaparse, resultar pesado, mal cocido (el pan)

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - genomblöt, degig, svampig, förslöad, smutsig
v. - genomdränka, göra degig

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
浑身湿透的, 浸过酒的, 不成样子的, 拿水浸, 使变呆, 被浸湿

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 渾身濕透的, 浸過酒的, 不成樣子的
v. tr. - 拿水浸, 使變呆
v. intr. - 被浸濕

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - (물에) 흠뻑 젖은, 삶아진, (술 중독으로) 멍청한
v. tr. - 잠그다, 흠뻑 적시다, (머리 따위를) 무기력하게 하다
v. intr. - 물에 잠기다, 말랑말랑해지다, 썩다

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - びしょ濡れの, 生焼けの, 頭がぼんやりした, 酒浸りの, 無表情な
v. - 浸す, びっしょり濡らす, 酒浸りにする

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) أبله, غبي, متلبد, مشبع بالماء (فعل) يبله أو يخضل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮רווי, ספוג, לח, רטוב, בצקי, לא אפוי, שתוי, מטומטם‬
v. tr. - ‮הספיג, הרווה‬
v. intr. - ‮נעשה שתוי‬


 
 
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