waterlogged

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adjective

Soaked with water.

Similar
drenchedsaturatedsoddenboggymarshymirymuckymuddy
OriginEnglish waterlog ← Middle English logge ← Old Norse liggjader.? →
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Meanings

adjectivewaterlogged (comparative more waterlogged, superlative most waterlogged)

comparative more waterlogged · superlative most waterlogged

  1. Soaked with water.

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

    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
    1 more example

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

    2021 September 1, Michael Levenson, Anne Barnard, “Scenes from New York City as Ida paralyzes region”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2021

    Synonyms: drenched

  2. nauticalIn danger of sinking because of excess water onboard.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveSoaked with water.

Similar
drenched
Similar
saturatedsodden

More synonyms by meaning

adjective(of soil) soft and watery

Similar
boggymarshymirymuckymuddyquaggysloppysloughysoggysquashyswampywet
Also see
boggymarshymirymuckymuddyquaggysloppysloughysoddensoggysoppysquashyswampywaterywet

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wed-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*wódr̥
  3. Proto-Germanic*watōr
  4. Proto-West Germanic*watar
  5. Old Englishwæter
  6. Middle Englishwater
  7. Englishwater
  8. Proto-Indo-European*legʰ-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*légʰyeti
  10. Proto-Germanic*ligjaną
  11. Old Norseliggjader.?
  12. Middle Englishlogge
  13. Englishlog
  14. Englishwaterlog
  15. Englishwaterlogged

From waterlog + -ed.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Bulgarian подгизнал
  • подгизнал (podgiznal)soaked with water
Finnish läpimärkä, veden peitossa (oleva)
  • läpimärkäsoaked with water
  • veden peitossa (oleva)soaked with water
French détrempé
  • détrempésoaked with water
German wasserdurchtränkt, von Wasser durchtränkt
  • wasserdurchtränktsoaked with water
  • von Wasser durchtränktsoaked with water
Irish báite
  • báitesoaked with water
Japanese 浸水した
  • 浸水した (shinsui shita)soaked with water
Māori urutomo, pukewai
  • urutomosoaked with water
  • pukewaisoaked with water
  • pukuwaisoaked with water
Polish rozmokły
  • rozmokłysoaked with water
Spanish inundado, encharcado
  • inundadosoaked with water
  • encharcadosoaked with water
Swedish vattensjuk, vattendränkt
  • vattensjuksoaked with water
  • vattendränktsoaked with water
  • vattenfylldsoaked with water
Vietnamese ngập nước, úng nước
  • ngập nướcsoaked with water
  • úng nướcsoaked with water
Welsh dwrlawn
  • dwrlawnsoaked with water
Cite this entry
APA

waterlogged. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waterlogged

MLA

“waterlogged.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waterlogged. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “waterlogged,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waterlogged.

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