waterlogged

English

Adjective

waterlogged (comparative more waterlogged, superlative most waterlogged)

1. Soaked with water.
   • 2021 September 1, Michael Levenson, Anne Barnard, “Scenes from New York City as Ida paralyzes region”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 December 2021:

     The sudden inundation from the remnants of Ida transformed familiar scenes of life in New York into otherworldly and waterlogged chaos on Wednesday night.

   • 2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time‎^[2]:

     On a cold morning in Abilene, Texas, a column of 18-wheelers crawls down bumpy, waterlogged roads, past cattle grazing on dusty shrubs.

2. (nautical) In danger of sinking because of excess water onboard.

Synonyms

• (soaked with water): drenched, saturated, sodden; see also Thesaurus:wet

Related terms

• waterlog

Translations

soaked with water

• Bulgarian: подгизнал (bg) (podgiznal)
• Finnish: läpimärkä (fi), veden peitossa (oleva)
• French: détrempé (fr)
• German: wasserdurchtränkt, von Wasser durchtränkt
• Irish: báite
• Japanese: 浸水した (shinsui shita)
• Māori: urutomo, pukewai, pukuwai
• Polish: rozmokły (pl)
• Spanish: inundado (es), encharcado (es)
• Swedish: vattensjuk (sv) (of soil), vattendränkt, vattenfylld (sv)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: صولاق (sulak) (of a place)

• Vietnamese: ngập nước, úng nước
• Welsh: dwrlawn