waterlogged
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.
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How to use waterlogged in a sentence
Methane-producing microbes — aptly named methanogens — thrive in these waterlogged soils.
Electrical bacteria may help clean oil spills and curb methane emissions | Nikk Ogasa | July 29, 2022 | Science NewsThe indigenous Mexica fenced in and filled lake areas, creating waterlogged farms to feed their island city.
Climate change is helping sink Mexico City | Lucas Laursen | December 23, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewFrom waking up in a tent sitting in a couple inches of water, to forgetting to pack a waterproof shell during thunderstorm season, I’ve been left waterlogged and grumpy from being caught unprepared more times than I’d like to admit.
Rain Gear Built for the Wettest Pacific Northwest Adventures | aweinberg | July 30, 2021 | Outside OnlineThe pool is easy to drain, so you don’t need to stress about a waterlogged lawn.
Best kiddie pool: Turn your backyard into a childhood oasis | Jen McCaffery | July 22, 2021 | Popular-ScienceRedbud is adaptable to different soil types and pH but won’t grow in waterlogged conditions.
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.
The Watchers of the Trails | Charles G. D. RobertsEvery autumn some of them became waterlogged, and not a few were never heard of after leaving the port of loading.
The Shellback's Progress | Walter RuncimanThe sky was waterlogged and the grey ceiling, overstrained, had sagged and dropped to the level of the chimneys.
The Sea and the Jungle | H. M. TomlinsonErelong, swallowing water at his present rate, the professor must inevitably become waterlogged.
Love Among the Chickens | P. G. Wodehousewaterlogged as she was, it had only needed that last great sea to send her down bodily.
A Desperate Voyage | Edward Frederick Knight
British Dictionary definitions for waterlogged
/ (ˈwɔːtəˌlɒɡd) /
saturated with water
(of a vessel still afloat) having taken in so much water as to be unmanageable
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