Definitions for sodden

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sodden sod·den

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IPA: /ˈsɒd n/

Sodden is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in sodden (ddenos).

Definitions for sodden

noun

1. the act of seething.
2. the state of being agitated or excited.

adjective

1. soaked with liquid or moisture; saturated.
2. heavy, lumpy, or soggy, as food that is poorly cooked.
3. having a soaked appearance.
4. bloated, as the face.
5. expressionless, dull, or stupid, especially from drunkenness.
6. lacking spirit or alertness; inert; torpid; listless.
7. Archaic. boiled.

verb (used with object)

1. to soak or steep.
2. to cook by boiling or simmering; boil.

verb (used without object)

1. to surge or foam as if boiling.
2. to be in a state of agitation or excitement.
3. Archaic. to boil.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make or become sodden.
2. Obsolete. past participle of seethe.

Origin of sodden

1250-1300; Middle English soden, sothen, past participle of sethen to seethe

Examples for sodden

When dawn came, they were on the move, glad to stretch their sodden limbs.

It creaked and gave back a sodden, hollow sound, but at first there was no response.

He could barely make out the sodden steps and––they were receding.

His complexion was pale and sodden, and his hair short, dark, and sleek.

It is a kind of hell, but not the spiraling inferno the Stalker Virgil led Dante through, but a sodden, sloppy Tartarus.

Her hair, streaming down in a sodden mass, was matted with blood.

There is Walker McNally, a sodden drunk for whom the pouring and stirring of a drink becomes a kind of sexual foreplay.

Arrived there, he removed his coat and neckcloth, his sodden boots and stockings.

The colours were indistinguishable at the distance, drenched and sodden.

Then he replaced the sodden end of his cigarette between them.