waterlogged

[ waw-ter-lawgd, -logd, wot-er- ]
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adjective
  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.

Origin of waterlogged

1
1760–70; water + log1 (apparently in v. sense “(of water) to accumulate in a ship”) + -ed2

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British Dictionary definitions for waterlogged

waterlogged

/ (ˈwɔːtəˌlɒɡd) /


adjective
  1. saturated with water

  2. (of a vessel still afloat) having taken in so much water as to be unmanageable

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