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waterlogged
[ waw-ter-lawgd, -logd, wot-er- ]
adjective
- so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
- excessively saturated with or as if with water:
waterlogged ground; waterlogged with fatigue.
waterlogged
/ ˈwɔːtəˌlɒɡd /
adjective
- saturated with water
- (of a vessel still afloat) having taken in so much water as to be unmanageable
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Word History and Origins
Origin of waterlogged1
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Example Sentences
But among reams of waterlogged documents, troops wading in water four feet deep spotted Hebrew lettering among the Arabic.
This view from the Kimball Theater shows a waterlogged Colonial Williamsburg.
Instantly it became motionless, and sank, like a waterlogged twig, to the level of the mud.
Every autumn some of them became waterlogged, and not a few were never heard of after leaving the port of loading.
The sky was waterlogged and the grey ceiling, overstrained, had sagged and dropped to the level of the chimneys.
Erelong, swallowing water at his present rate, the professor must inevitably become waterlogged.
Waterlogged as she was, it had only needed that last great sea to send her down bodily.
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