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Definitions: Waterlogged |
WaterloggedAdjective1. 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) |
| Domain | Definitions |
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: WaterloggedSynonym: soggy (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: water-logged (food & agriculture, building & civil engineering). |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Waterlogged |
| English words defined with "waterlogged": battle of Ypres ♦ soggy ♦ third battle of Ypres ♦ Ypres. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "waterlogged": dewatering ♦ freeze sinking ♦ Hydric soil ♦ old working ♦ Poetsch process ♦ Reticulite. (references) |
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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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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 130 | 28,019 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "waterlogged": become waterlogged. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "waterlogged": heavily-waterlogged, semi-waterlogged. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
waterlogged | 6 |
baseball waterlogged | 3 |
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| 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 encharcado (dripping, madid, saturated, soaked, sodden, soggy, sopping, soppy, weathered, wet). (various references) заболоченный, полузатопленный. (various references) pun vode, preplavljen. (various references) impregnado de agua, encharcado, empapado de agua. (various references) vattenfylld (water logged). (various references) su emmiş, su dolu (filled with water, watery). (various references) розкислий, затоплений (drowned, sunk), заболочений (watery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "waterlogged" (pronounced wô"terlÄ'gd) |
| 4 | -l Ä' g d | backlogged. |
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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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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 74 65 72 6C 6F 67 67 65 64 |
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