(p. p.) Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.
(v. i.) To be seethed; to become sodden.
(v. t.) To soak; to make heavy with water.
Example Sentences:
(1) There's only so much traipsing sodden hills one person can do; once your Pringles supply from the nearest point of civilisation has been depleted, and anyone with bones ripe for jumping carries the risk of a shared grandparent, it's a wonder more people don't while away the long nights with a spot of leisurely murder.
(2) Britain's sodden fields mean the debate about climate change is now no longer confined to some abstruse problem affecting glaciers in far-off countries.
(3) Here was a woman, "dismal, drab, embarrassing," sodden with "self-pity," who in the Golden Notebook had single-handedly set back the women's movement "a good long way".
(4) Twelve miles north across sodden fields at the confluence of the rivers Bosna and Sava, Samac was the last Bosnian town to be hit by flooding, and the last where waters receded.
(5) The stands are empty; the pitch, still sodden and scarred from recent international rugby union clashes, is unused.
(6) The house was freezing and water was leaking from a ceiling light socket on Jaffar as he tried to sleep in his sodden bed.” The family continued to suffer racist abuse, according to social services, as did Ibrahim Kamara and his mother Khadijah.
(7) This being rain-sodden rural Devon, and the roads being narrow and flooded, the journey took me the best part of 45 minutes each way, and Richard, one of the Bothy's owners, very kindly accompanied me in his four by four for the first stretch, to make sure my ailing Toyota Yaris got through the floods.
(8) "I'm ill, my body is reacting to this," said Colic from the sodden concrete space that was once her front room.
(9) Still, we could have done with a Jubilee-style cutaway to the sodden picnickers sitting on drenched rugs, clutching rain-diluted fizz as their bottoms, now unquestionably soggy, sank into the mud.
(10) Each bubble has had to be bigger than the last in order to get the growth back to something considered acceptable, which is why the US went into this crisis with debt-sodden consumers and over-extended banks.
(11) There are few kitchen sights sadder than a deep-tin drizzle cake which is sodden on top with a bone dry bottom.
(12) With this in mind, I'd like to thank Kerry for the heart-swelling joy of seeing her stand in the rain, and with due regard for decent taste, craning her neck for a better view in her plastic mac and sodden deely boppers.
(13) A sodden October night in Stoke proved as demoralising for José Mourinho as it sounds as the Capital One Cup holders, having taken this fourth-round tie into extra time thanks to Loïc Rémy’s stoppage-time equaliser, were knocked out of the competition to compound the pressure bearing down on the Chelsea manager.
(14) In one diary Napper referred to several women, calling one a "sodden filthy bitch".
(15) I hate the sin but ah love the sinner," honked the freshly convicted Fiz, face sodden with snot, and with a final grimace of embarrassment John Stape gurgled his last, his newly bearded soul presumably passing through purgatory's rigorous decontamination process before ascending to the Dead Soap Bastard sty in the sky.
(16) At that stage the Poles appeared to be wilting, their conviction draining quicker than the sodden pitch, only for England to doze off.
(17) It wasn't as wild as the US embassy in Kabul, but Nicholson's officers were nevertheless incredulous when they learned that the office had held an alcohol-sodden "Lash Vegas Pimps and Hos" bash while the marines were struggling to pacify Marja.
(18) Those economies, such as the UK and the United States, that have become progressively more unequal – FTSE 100 directors’ pay rose 21% last year, while average wages remain tightly squeezed – have also become progressively more debt-sodden and more vulnerable to financial crises.
(19) Men and women in hi-vis jackets and blue chest-high waders fill wheelbarrows with woodchips and spread them on the sodden riverbank.
(20) As I was standing, with a sodden piece of cardboard around my neck, slowly turning to mush in the rain, knowing that the pre-sales to the show were nil, I saw one of my former colleagues walk towards me.
Sudden
Definition:
(a.) Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy.
(a.) Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
(a.) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
(adv.) Suddenly; unexpectedly.
(n.) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
Example Sentences:
(1) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
(2) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
(3) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(4) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(5) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(6) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(7) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(8) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(9) In addition, recent studies have not confirmed previous observations that diuretic-induced hypokalaemia increases ventricular ectopy or contributes to sudden death.
(10) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
(11) The high ED50 immediately after vagotomy is ascribed to the sudden fall in the subthreshold release of acetylcholine previously supplied by the intact vagus.
(12) If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.” The sudden release follows weeks of visual clues left on the Radiohead frontman’s Twitter and Tumblr.
(13) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.
(14) Furthermore, myocarditis, pathological changes of the conduction system, and other rare conditions can lead to sudden cardiac death.
(15) Five of the children presented an "aplastic crisis," for example, a sudden decrease in hemoglobin concentration associated with absence of reticulocytes in the peripheral blood, and four were admitted with unremitting severe pain because of a "vaso-occlusive crisis."
(16) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(17) The animal showed progressive hindlimb paresis of sudden onset.
(18) In almost 80% of sudden cardiac deaths in ACMP foci of acute myocardial ischemia are found, that can lead to ventricular fibrillation with lethal outcome.
(19) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(20) Our data show that the incidence of sudden death over 51 months is relatively low in patients with single vessel disease.