WATERLOGGED


Meaning of WATERLOGGED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

soil

Dead plants can not rot properly in the waterlogged soil .

However, in some localities, such as below the water table and in waterlogged soils , reducing conditions can prevail.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The game was cancelled because the field was waterlogged .

The National Guard went in yesterday to help waterlogged communities in Louisiana.

You can plant the seeds anytime, as long as the soil is not frozen or waterlogged .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Above this the soil has become waterlogged .

Engineers were to begin Monday an attempt to dry out the waterlogged San Pedro mountain by drilling two 300-foot-deep wells.

I forgot my wetness, my dripping jeans, the soggy waterlogged ground.

It will be free-draining so that it is never waterlogged and will be well aerated.

Large tracts of land will be waterlogged and rendered saline, and innumerable species of wildlife destroyed for ever.

Most of the apparent paths led into long waterlogged hollows.

The pits have become lakes and the land around them is damp or waterlogged .

The same was found to apply to pellets in waterlogged or permanently wet conditions.

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