sodden

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From Middle English, from Old English soden, past participle of seoþan (“to cook", "to boil”)

sodden (comparative more sodden, superlative most sodden)

soaked

stupid as a result of drunkenness

sodden (third-person singular simple present soddens, present participle soddening, simple past and past participle soddened)

(transitive) To drench, soak or saturate.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
  
  But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.
(intransitive) To become soaked.

to drench, soak or saturate

to become soaked