SODDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sodden mean? 

• SODDEN (adjective)
  The adjective SODDEN has 1 sense:

1. wet through and through; thoroughly wet

  Familiarity information: SODDEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SODDEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wet through and through; thoroughly wet

Synonyms:

sodden; soppy

Context example:

soppy clothes

Similar:

wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)

 Context examples 

His cheeks were pale and sodden, like those of a man who lived too well and took too little exercise.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suddenly, however, a flash of intelligence had come over his sodden features, and he rose and staggered for the door.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Yes—try," repeated Mary gently; and Mary's hand removed my sodden bonnet and lifted my head.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the middle of it, clearly marked on the sodden soil, was the track of a bicycle.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage—a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My clothes were all sodden with dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded thumb.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While Laurie and Amy were taking conjugal strolls over velvet carpets, as they set their house in order, and planned a blissful future, Mr. Bhaer and Jo were enjoying promenades of a different sort, along muddy roads and sodden fields.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was a tall, gaunt man of sixty, with clear-cut features and a small goatee beard which gave him a general resemblance to the caricatures of Uncle Sam. A half-smoked, sodden cigar hung from the corner of his mouth, and as he sat down he struck a match and relit it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She looked so quiet and good, and reminded me so strongly of my airy fresh school days at Canterbury, and the sodden, smoky, stupid wretch I had been the other night, that, nobody being by, I yielded to my self-reproach and shame, and—in short, made a fool of myself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The moon was set, and it was very dark; Bessie carried a lantern, whose light glanced on wet steps and gravel road sodden by a recent thaw.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)