water-logged

Synonyms for water-logged

adj saturated

adjective. saturated

adjective. wet

adjective. liquid, diluted

1779, from water (n.1) + log (n.); the notion is of "reduce to a log-like condition."

It must be made emphatic that the grape will not thrive in water-logged land.

But the canoe was water-logged; how should he get rid of it?

A water-logged hull of some vessel or other, I reckon, boss!

Made towards her, when she proved to be the barque 'Carleton,' water-logged.

By this time the ship was within a short distance of the water-logged bateau.

He was glad enough to turn from his water-logged craft to the other boat.

Had she not had us on board, she would very soon, I suspect, have been water-logged.

Maybe my floatin' ribs are water-logged and my memory muscle-bound.

As one of her officers put it, "she was as unmanageable as a water-logged vessel."

The Calypso is water-logged, will no longer obey her helm, and must surely sink.