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sodden

/sod-n/US // ˈsɒd n //UK // (ˈsɒdən) //

沾沾自喜,沾染,沾污,沾满灰尘

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 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. 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!