soddened

past tense of sodden

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for soddened
Verb
  • The August rains that soaked much of the Milwaukee area changed that.
    La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • By the end of each trip, our clothes were soaked and our skin bitten raw by mosquitoes.
    Vogue, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To help keep leaves, whole or chopped, in place during high winds or flooding rains, wet them down with a hose.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
  • But the comedy is absolutely something that wets my beak, I'm drawn to it.
    H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Nearly every market is saturated.
    Astha Bhardwaj, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The colors are richly saturated, and when something catches Ryan’s eye—say, a bee alighting on a wildflower—the images shimmer with an almost radioactive intensity.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The ghost of a Cloyd brother's daughter who fell from a horse and drowned in a stream is said to make her presence known.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Sergeant Anna Barbosa said Hennigan is believed to have drowned.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In that four-year timeline, John had moved out several times and even impregnated a woman when he and Lorena were separated.
    Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In Episode 7, audiences finally got to see the creature in action after Arthur (David Rysdahl) is impregnated by the specimen, paying homage to Kane’s (John Hurt) death on the Nostromo.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For example, microfiber should not be washed with other items.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The material is washed, processed locally into balls, flakes and/or pellets that meet European industrial standards, and then spun into a high-grade thread, without blending with virgin plastic or chemical additives.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Savannah, Georgia, is a city steeped with history and charm.
    Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Make sure to consult the steeping direction for each kind of tea, as different teas should be steeped for various lengths of time at different temperatures (hotter for black and herbal and cooler for green and white, for instance).
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In the recent past, Japanese companies like Toyota and Sony had flooded America’s market with high quality but inexpensive cars and electronics, harming the business of great American brands, including General Motors and RCA.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In 1700, for example, the Dutch flooded part of West Africa with perhaps as much as 40 million pounds of gunpowder, enough for well over half a billion musket shots; the world population at the time may have been as low as 600 million people.
    Clifton Crais, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Soddened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soddened. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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