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waterlogged

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wa·ter·logged  (wôtr-lôgd, -lgd, wtr-)
adj.
1. Nautical Heavy and sluggish in the water because of flooding, as in the hold: a waterlogged ship.
2. Soaked or saturated with water: waterlogged fields; waterlogged docking.

[water + logged, past participle of log, to accumulate (water) in a ship.]

waterlogged
Adjective
1. saturated with water: waterlogged meadows
2. (of a boat) having taken in so much water as to be likely to sink
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Adj.1.waterlogged - (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"
wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"

waterlogged
adjective soaked, saturated, drenched, sodden, streaming, dripping, sopping, wet through, wringing wet, droukit or drookit Scot.
Translations
waterlogged [ˈwɔːtəlɔgd] adj [boat] → anegado; [ground] → inundado
waterlogged [ˈwɔːtəlɔgd] adjdétrempé(e); imbibé(e) d'eau
waterlogged [ˈwɔːtəlɔgd] water adj [ground] → unter Wasser
waterlogged [ˈwɔːtəlɔgd] adjsaturo/a d'acqua; imbevuto/a d'acqua ; [football pitch etc] → allagato/a


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After soaking two years and then lying high six months it was perfectly sound, though waterlogged past drying.
 
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