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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Seethe \Seethe\, v. t. [imp. {Seethed}({Sod}, obs.); p. p.
   {Seethed}, {Sodden}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seething}.] [OE.
   sethen, AS. se['o]?an; akin to D. sieden, OHG. siodan, G.
   sieden, Icel. sj??a, Sw. sjuda, Dan. syde, Goth. saubs a
   burnt offering. Cf. {Sod}, n., {Sodden}, {Suds}.]
   To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to
   seethe flesh. [Written also {seeth}.]

         Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons
         of the prophets.                         --2 Kings iv.
                                                  38.

Sodden \Sod"den\, a. [p. p. of {Seethe}.]
   Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture;
   saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.

Sodden \Sod"den\, v. i.
   To be seethed; to become sodden.

Sodden \Sod"den\, v. t.
   To soak; to make heavy with water.

Sod \Sod\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sodden}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Sodding}.]
   To cover with sod; to turf.

Source : WordNet®

sodden
     adj : wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door
           drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated
           with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or
           soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy
           clothes" [syn: {drenched}, {saturated}, {soaked}, {soaking},
            {sopping}, {soppy}]
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