the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > make very wet [verb (transitive)] > with water > so as to render inert (2)
To cover or flood with a liquid. Chiefly hyperbolical. To overspread with fluid; to drench, inundate. Also, to saturate (a powder magazine) with…
transitive. To cause to become lodged in a place, as a result of saturation. Cf. waterlogged, adj. 3. Obsolete. rare.