sodden
沾沾自喜,沾染,沾污,沾满灰尘
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Definitions
- 1
- : soaked with liquid or moisture; saturated.
- : heavy, lumpy, or soggy, as food that is poorly cooked.
- : having a soaked appearance.
- : bloated, as the face.
- : expressionless, dull, or stupid, especially from drunkenness.
- : lacking spirit or alertness; inert; torpid; listless.
- : Archaic. boiled.
- 1
- : to make or become sodden.
- : Obsolete. past participle of seethe.
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Examples
Despite the weight of my own sodden rain gear, I felt somehow lighter, too.
Shampooing used to mean a lot of foam and a lot of damp carpet, while steaming was seen as preferable as it didn’t leave fibers quite so sodden.
Lucky Danger’s beef and broccoli is equal parts soft meat and sodden vegetable.
It is a kind of hell, but not the spiraling inferno the Stalker Virgil led Dante through, but a sodden, sloppy Tartarus.
There is Walker McNally, a sodden drunk for whom the pouring and stirring of a drink becomes a kind of sexual foreplay.
It wanted something over an hour to midnight when Monsieur de Garnache started out in his sodden clothes to run from Condillac.
If two of the sodden ruffians forrad would only come up, then something might be done; but one tired sailor was of little use.
I am alone among my friends,And of our sodden crowd No single drunkard understandsI sit apart and vowed.
It was an exciting moment as that great bulk came on, its tons of sodden wood backed by the impetuous forces of the torrent.
But what a contrast to this spasm of local statesmanship the earlier years of that drink-sodden century display!