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Sodden vs Undefined - What's the difference?

sodden | undefined |

As adjectives the difference between sodden and undefined

is that sodden is soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated while undefined is lacking a definition or value.

As a verb sodden

is to drench, soak or saturate.

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.

    • undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined