Soddens vs Saddens - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between soddens and saddens

is that soddens is (sodden) while saddens is (sadden).

soddens

English

Verb

(head)

(sodden)

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sodden

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.

* 1810 , , Volume XII, 4th Edition, page 702,

It is found, indeed, that meat, roa?ted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ?odden than when coal is employed for that purpo?e.

* 1895 February, James Rodway, Nature's Triumph'', '' , page 460,

The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden .

* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]

A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”

(figuratively) Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.

* 1857 , , 1899, Reprint Edition, page 60,

With this profession of faith, the doctor, who was an old jail-bird, and was more sodden than usual, and had the additional and unusual stimulus of money in his pocket, returned to his associate and chum in hoarseness, puffiness, redfacedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy.

* 2010 , , The Cameron Delusion , page 79,

I would have done too, but alcohol makes me so ill that I couldn't (I mention this to make it clear that I don't claim any moral superiority over my more sodden colleagues).

Derived terms

* soddenly * soddenness

Verb

(en verb)

To drench, soak or saturate.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.

To become soaked.

saddens

English

Verb

(head)

(sadden)

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sadden

English

Verb

(en verb)

to make sad or unhappy

* (Alexander Pope)

* , chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}

(rare) to become sad or unhappy

* {{quote-book, year=1999, author=Mary Ann Mitchell, title=Drawn To The Grave citation

, passage=Hyacinth perfume tickled her senses, making her feel giddy, but she saddened when she saw how uncared for the garden was.}}

(rare) to darken a color during dyeing

to render heavy or cohesive

* Mortimer

Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.

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* * English ergative verbs