WATERLOGGED


Meaning of WATERLOGGED in English

/waw"teuhr lawgd', -logd', wot"euhr-/ , adj.

1. so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.

2. excessively saturated with or as if with water: waterlogged ground; waterlogged with fatigue.

[ 1760-70; WATER + LOG 1 (appar. in v. sense "(of water) to accumulate in a ship") + -ED 2 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .