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Waterlogged

Definitions: Waterlogged

Waterlogged

Adjective

1. Soaked with moisture; "a soggy lawn"; "the flood left waterlogged fields".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "waterlogged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Waterlogged

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A. Said of workings or mines that have become filled with water because of abandonment or stoppage of operations. See also:inrush of wate b. Referring to land where the water table is permanently located at ornear ground level. See also:water table. (references)

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Synonym: Waterlogged

Synonym: soggy (adj). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: water-logged (food & agriculture, building & civil engineering).

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Synonyms within Context: Waterlogged

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Danger

Tottering; unstable, unsteady; shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown, ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged; helpless, guideless; in a bad way; reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity; trembling in the balance; nodding to its fall; (destruction). threatening; ominous, illomened; alarming; (fear); explosive.

Hindrance

Hindered; Verb: windbound, waterlogged, heavy laden; hard pressed.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Waterlogged

English words defined with "waterlogged": battle of Ypressoggythird battle of YpresYpres. (references)
Specialty definitions using "waterlogged": dewateringfreeze sinkingHydric soilold workingPoetsch processReticulite. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Waterlogged

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Books

  • Crop production in waterlogged saline soils (reference)

  • The conservation of waterlogged wood in the National Museum of Denmark With a report on the methods chosen for the stabilization of the timbers of the viking ships from Roskilde Fjord, and a report on experiments carried out in order to improve upon these (reference)

  • Waterlogged Wealth: Why Waste the World's Wet Places (reference)

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Theater & Movies

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Use in Literature: Waterlogged

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Usage Frequency: Waterlogged

"Waterlogged" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Waterlogged" is used about 130 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%13028,019

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Waterlogged

Expression using "waterlogged": become waterlogged. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "waterlogged": heavily-waterlogged, semi-waterlogged.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Waterlogged

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  waterlogged

6

  baseball waterlogged

3
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Modern Translations: Waterlogged

Language Translations for "waterlogged"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i nginjur me ujë, i mbytur në ujë, i mbushur me ujë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

заблатен, полузатънал, подгизнал (drenched, oozy, soaked, soaking wet, sopping, soppy, water-sick). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nasáklý vodou. (various references)

   

Danish

  

vandlidende jord. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

waterziek, verzadigd met water. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vesilastissa, vesilasi. (various references)

   

French

  

plein d'eau, imbibé d'eau, gorgé d'eau. (various references)

   

German

  

durchtränkt (imbued), durchfeuchtet. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βαρύσ (beefy, cumbrous, heavy, hefty, labored, laboured, leaden, logy, lumpish, massive, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, saturnine, stodgy, weighty), πλημμυρισμένο έδαφος, πλήρησ ύδατοσ, υπερβολική υγρασία εδάφους. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

טובעני (boggy, marshy, swampy). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vízzel átitatott, elmocsarasodott. (various references)

   

Italian

  

saturo (filled, full), pregno (full, pregnant, rich), imbevuto, acquitrinoso (boggy, marshy, peaty, swampy). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

水腹 (allaying hunger with water, waterlogged stomach). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

みずばら (allaying hunger with water, waterlogged stomach). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lieh-vaiht. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aterloggedway

   

Portuguese

  

encharcado (dripping, madid, saturated, soaked, sodden, soggy, sopping, soppy, weathered, wet). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

заболоченный, полузатопленный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pun vode, preplavljen. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

impregnado de agua, encharcado, empapado de agua. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vattenfylld (water logged). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

su emmiş, su dolu (filled with water, watery). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

розкислий, затоплений (drowned, sunk), заболочений (watery). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Waterlogged"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "waterlogged" (pronounced wô"terlÄ'gd)
4-l Ä' g dbacklogged.

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Anagrams: Waterlogged

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-g-l-o-r-t-w"

-2 letters: delegator.

-3 letters: derogate, doggerel, glowered, gorgeted, leadwort, reglowed, retagged, troweled, waterdog, waterlog.

-4 letters: aerogel, alerted, altered, delator, dewater, doggrel, dowager, draggle, gargled, garoted, gelated, gloated, gloater, goateed, growled, lagered, leeward, legated, legator, leotard, lowered, ragweed, regaled, related, roweled, tarweed, toggled, toggler, toweled, towered, trawled, treadle, wagered, waggled, watered, wergeld, wergelt, wordage.

-5 letters: agreed, areole.

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Alternative Orthography: Waterlogged


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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