sodden
adjective
soaked with liquid or moisture; saturated.
soddening
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present participleof sodden.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Soon the rain was trickling from Dictator Stalin's hat and soddening his coat.
From Time Magazine Archive
He may not be able to put it in words, but easterly haars, chilling rimes, drizzling mists, dagging fogs, and soddening rains speak eloquently to him of the meaning of climate.
From Meteorology or Weather Explained by J. G. M'Pherson
On it came, winding its way in a frightful stream into the room, soddening the rich carpet, and lying presently in a black pool at my feet.
From Dreams and Dream Stories by Anna Bonus Kingsford
He followed the grass-track to the north, and had walked less than half-an-hour when the wind took his cap and blew it into the middle of a pond, where it lay soddening out of reach.
From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon
She had cooked for him a mutton-chop, which was soddening itself between two plates upon the little table near the fire.
From Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
