Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Saturated or filled with water: applied specifically to a ship when by leaking and receiving a great quantity of water into her hold she has become so heavy as to be nearly or altogether unmanageable, though still keeping afloat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of soil) soft and watery
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Examples
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Remnant moisture from Tropical Storm Lee will combine with a slow-moving storm system to produce heavy rain over a large portion of the eastern U.S. during the next few days, potentially including the water-logged and flood-weary regions in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
Paul Yeager: Widespread Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Flooding Threat This Week Paul Yeager 2011
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Kevin Frayer/Associated Press TAKING A NAP: A bicycle rickshaw driver slept Thursday after stopping in a water-logged underpass during a monsoon rain in New Delhi.
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My dear, I'm water-logged, yet the mere absence of that frightful agony makes my present state sheerest bliss.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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Remnant moisture from Tropical Storm Lee will combine with a slow-moving storm system to produce heavy rain over a large portion of the eastern U.S. during the next few days, potentially including the water-logged and flood-weary regions in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
Paul Yeager: Widespread Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Flooding Threat This Week Paul Yeager 2011
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The boy also found his frog at the bottom of the garbage pail, and in the toilet tank—water-logged and faded, toilet water tinted green.
Insect Eater Ann Wahlman 2011
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Pakistan should use any excess stocks in Punjab to ensure needs are met in other areas, especially parts of Sindh that remain water-logged, said Oxfam's Ms. Naqvi.
Pakistani Wheat-Export Plan Draws Fire Tom Wright 2010
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Los Angeles firefighters and city crews worked for several hours Tuesday to rescue one of their own: a 22-ton firetruck that was nearly swallowed by a water-logged sinkhole.
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All food and fresh water were below, and there was no getting at such supplies in the water-logged condition of the wreck.
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When he wasn't ferrying supplies in by canoe, he was tossing a plastic bucket tied to twine into water-logged chambers and hauling up bilge water.
Living Alone on a Steel Barge Clearly Has a Downside Joel Millman 2011
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Remnant moisture from Tropical Storm Lee will combine with a slow-moving storm system to produce heavy rain over a large portion of the eastern U.S. during the next few days, potentially including the water-logged and flood-weary regions in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
Paul Yeager: Widespread Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Flooding Threat This Week Paul Yeager 2011
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