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

Heavy rain forced play to be suspended early in the final round with large areas of standing water on the sodden course.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2025

Schumacher's greatness in sodden conditions made the difference in Barcelona.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2024

I spent Monday hauling furniture to a dumpster and cutting up sodden rugs with a kitchen knife—it was all I had—so that they’d fit inside contractor bags.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024

Glancing down, she sees her ruined cell phone, the sodden backpack that holds her laptop.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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 Richardson, James

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

She noticed how his moustache was soddened wet with tears.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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

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

Then quickly divesting himself of the soddened girdle of grass around his loins, he put on the European garments, filled his pipe, and began to talk.

From "Martin Of Nitendi"; and The River Of Dreams 1901 by Becke, Louis

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Farjeon, Eleanor

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 Kingsford, Anna Bonus

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 Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

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 M'Pherson, J. G.