sodden

And if you aren’t moved by it, there is something wrong and you must investigate your sodden heart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Scotland's campaign got off to a disappointing start in losing to Italy in sodden conditions in Rome.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

When it flooded most recently, she was left to stay overnight in the sodden flat, as no alternative accommodation could be found.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

Norris was eating away at the Dutchman’s advantage until Verstappen grabbed back the initiative in spectacular style with a stunning victory from 17th on the grid in a sodden Brazil earlier this month.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

Everything was wet and half-frozen, and while she could bear sodden hair, she couldn’t withstand the agony of wet shoes.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

If on the fourth day he do not arrive at the belad, or country, he then takes his left sandal from his foot, and stews or soddens it, making something of a soup.

From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson

Kyril Kasimoff shuddered at the thought of the Beverly Crest Blüthner being hauled away like so much debris, as if its elegant frame was just another piece of soddened, shattered wood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

Rain began to fall, soddened their straw sombreros, shortened their tempers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The derelict was a schooner, a lifeless and soddened hulk, so heavy and uncontesting that its foundering seemed at hand.

From Old Junk by S. K. (Samuel Kerkham) Ratcliffe

I have known cottagers actually apply at farmers' kitchens, not only for the pot-liquor in which meat has been soddened, but for the water in which potatoes have been boiled—potato-liquor—and sup it up with avidity.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Sir Walter Besant

He could not utter a word as he had lost his breath, while being soddened from head to foot he was commencing to steam merrily.

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney

Soon the rain was trickling from Dictator Stalin's hat and soddening his coat.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had cooked for him a mutton-chop, which was soddening itself between two plates upon the little table near the fire.

From Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He may not be able to put it in words, but easterly haars, chilling rimes, drizzling mists, dagging fogs, and soddening rains speak eloquently to him of the meaning of climate.

From Meteorology or Weather Explained by J. G. M'Pherson

He followed the grass-track to the north, and had walked less than half-an-hour when the wind took his cap and blew it into the middle of a pond, where it lay soddening out of reach.

From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

On it came, winding its way in a frightful stream into the room, soddening the rich carpet, and lying presently in a black pool at my feet.

From Dreams and Dream Stories by Anna Bonus Kingsford