I. sodden
Etymology: Middle English soden, from Old English
archaic
past part. of seethe
II. sod·den ˈsäd ə .n adjective
Etymology: Middle English soden, from soden, past participle
1. archaic : boiled
2.
a. : dull or expressionless in cast or appearance from or as if from continued indulgence in alcoholic beverages
a feeble smile crept over his sodden features — Joseph Furphy
a burly, sodden red-faced man — S.E.White
b. : dull or mentally inert : torpid , unimaginative
is emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually … too sodden a character to carry the full weight of philosophical understanding — C.I.Glicksberg
quickens their sodden … minds to some sort of glimmering conception of writing as an art — Dorothy C. Fisher
c. : wearisome or monotonous in delivery or effect : spiritless
turns in a sodden performance, ranting endlessly about his daughter's conduct — John McCarten
considering how many sodden and saccharine singers wandered through half a dozen variety shows — Bernard De Voto
3.
a. : heavy with moisture or water : soaked, saturated
the sodden drumming of the water on the caribou skins of the roof — Farley Mowat
torrid atmospheric conditions which … had reduced the conductor's collar to a sodden wreck — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin
the sands were sodden with petroleum that killed fish, destroyed waterfowl — Walter Karig
b. : settled, unremitting, or oppressively heavy or inert
living in clumsy and sodden ugliness — Galbraith Welch
depicts sodden hopelessness in the dreary landscape — Curtis Dahl
the sodden habits of a dead and inferior era — C.G.Burke
the exhausted, sodden sleep of beasts — F.Tennyson Jesse
too small a minority to leaven the sodden mass of a people long subject to absolutist rule — V.L.Parrington
c. : heavy or doughy because of imperfect cooking
sodden biscuits
4. : filled or weighed down with evil : sordid
exposing the sodden motives behind anti-Semitism — Carl Van Doren
some very sodden , very callous guys operate around these stock joints — Marcus Verner
drunkenness is a sodden vice — Albert Mowbray
III. sodden verb
( soddened ; soddened ; soddening -d( ə )niŋ ; soddens )
transitive verb
: to make sodden:
a. : soak , saturate
bread which has been soddened in water — C.R.A.Martin
b. : to cause (one's mind) to become dull, stupid, or inert
soddened by years of oppression and hardship
c. : to make (a person) flabby or bloated by alcoholic beverages
a woman soddened and mad with brandy — William Black
intransitive verb
: to become soaked or saturated with moisture or water
the sands sodden as the waves move in