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单词 waterlogged
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waterloggedadj.

Brit. /ˈwɔːtəlɒɡd/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərˌlɔɡd/, /ˈwɑdərˌlɑɡd/
Forms: 1700s waterlodged (irregular), 1700s– waterlogged.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: waterlog v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < waterlog v. + -ed suffix1.The form waterlodged, recorded e.g. in D. Lescallier Vocabulaire des termes de marine anglois et françois (1777) and in Encycl. Brit. (1797), appears to show an alteration of water-logged in W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (1769) (at cited word), by association with lodge v.
1. Of a ship or other vessel: flooded or filed with water by leakage or overflow so as to become reduced in buoyancy and hence heavy and unmanageable. Also in extended use.
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [adjective] > flooded with water
waterlogged1759
1759 Universal Mag. Sept. 163/2 Cut away our fore-mast, the ship being quite water logged, and the sea making a free passage over us.
1797 S. James Narr. Voy. 135 The vessel being nearly water-logged, every high sea washed over her.
1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 478 The Virgin visibly conveyed the water-logged ship over the breakers safely to the shore.
1865 F. Parkman Huguenots iii, in Pioneers of France in New World 40 The gale subsided..and the crazy, water-logged vessel again bore slowly towards France.
1912 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Inviolable Sanctuary v He climbed over the dredger..and dropped from her into a small waterlogged punt.
1944 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xiv. 124 Lawns are immediately flooded, cars are waterlogged.
2013 Wentworth Courier (Nexis) 18 Dec. 13 A pump was supplied and the crew began the tedious task of pumping out the waterlogged boat.
2. figurative and in figurative contexts: overwhelmed; damaged, impeded, or rendered useless by something.Originally with allusion to sense 1; in later use sometimes with primary reference to sense 4a.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > crushing or suppressing > crushed or overwhelmed
underthrast?1402
revocate?1440
overwhelmed1630
accablé1697
waterlogged1795
whelmeda1821
choked1855
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged
mangledc1400
shendedc1400
vitiate?a1475
appaired1475
wrack1487
maggleda1522
manka1522
mankeda1522
spiltc1540
massacred1590
through-galled1594
spoiled1598
flawed1608
impaired1611
damaged1771
scathed1791
waterlogged1795
spoilt1816
wrecked1818
injured1857
marred1870
buggered-up1893
messed-up1909
puckerooed1919
dinged1920
trashed1926
mucked-up1930
sheg-up1941
buggered1942
screwed-up1942
mucked-about1966
1795 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 117 Tumbling from the Gallick coast, the victorious tenth wave shall..poop the shattered, weather-beaten, leaky, water-logged vessel [sc. the Government].
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. vi. 394 A poor water-logged Legislature can pronounce nothing.
1867 J. R. Lowell Percival in Prose Wks. (1890) II. 141 His mind drifts, too waterlogged to answer the helm.
1905 Truth 16 Mar. 675/2 It is impossible, in view of all the conflicting accounts, to fortell what may happen to the Balfour waterlogged hulk.
2010 C. Waltzek Wealth Building Strategies Energy, Metals & Other Markets xiii. 202 However, the credit crisis of 2008 drained the flood waters, leaving little more than water-logged MBS [= mortgage backed security] debris.
3. Of an object in water: sunken, or reduced in buoyancy, owing to saturation.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > with water > so as to be deprived of buoyancy
waterloggedc1820
c1820 A. Fisher Jrnl. Voy. Arctic H.M.S. Alexander 68 in R. Phillips New Voy. & Trav. I A piece of fir wood, about eighteen inches in length, a good deal water-logged, but not worm-eaten, was picked up by the Isabella to day.
1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions iv. §2. 370 After death..the body was thus suspended with the belly uppermost, till it became water-logged, and buried in the silt.
1882 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. 315 Water-logged tree trunks clung among the roots projecting into the sluggish stream.
1950 D. H. Rose et al. Market Dis. Fruits & Veg. (rev. ed.) 14 The skimming should be done immediately after the fruit is immersed; otherwise some infested fruits are likely to become waterlogged and sink to the bottom with the sound ones.
1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse viii. 267 A mile farther, we banged into a low rider, a waterlogged timber showing almost nothing above the surface.
4.
a. Saturated with water, esp. so as to be damaged, spoilt, or rendered useless; sodden, soggy. Also more generally, or hyperbolically: very wet, characterized by the presence of a lot of water.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > resulting from saturation
waterlogged1829
1829 Bone Manure: Rep. Doncaster Comm. Agric. Assoc. 8 A gravelly soil may embrace..the waterlogged yellow clay.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 57 You will be glad to hear that we have escaped undrowned from that water-logged country called Holland.
1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 208/1 All the plants throughout the house should be often examined to see that none are pot-bound, or water-logged.
1893 Outing 22 150/1 A cyclist cannot extract enjoyment from a water-logged day.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 613 The arterial pressure falls at last..and in spite of free perspiration the tissues become water-logged.
1921 Pop. Mech. Feb. 249/1 The difficulties presented by wet shoestrings and heavy, soggy, water-logged garments.
1950 New Yorker 16 Dec. 32/1 The potatoes were waterlogged and the old red cabbage was boiled until it was blue.
1981 T. C. Boyle Water Music (1983) i. 147 Finally, weary and waterlogged, they find their feet and start wading toward higher ground.
2014 York Press (Nexis) 29 May The first team match at Oulton was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
b. Of a hole, hollow object, etc.: full of (unwanted) water.
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1834 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 249/1 Large quantities of water are partly given off and partly condensed..so that the receiver would soon get (in sailor's phrase) ‘water-logged’, if the attendant did not every few minutes pull out the plug.
1895 Daily News 24 June 8/5 They have completed arrangements for borrowing £100,000 to be spent in draining waterlogged mines.
1928 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 69/1 This was delivered with a slobbering roll of ‘r's’ like a rafale of water-logged kettle-drums.
1941 E. Linklater Man on my Back iii. 47 I fell into a water-logged trench. It was deep, and full to the brim.
2014 D. J. Poissant Heaven of Animals 6 The truck lurches into and then out of an enormous, waterlogged hole.
c. Of butter: containing an excess of water. Now historical and rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [adjective] > watery
waterlogged1901
1901 45th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. 145 If the granules are too small the water cannot run out readily. It runs out slowly, and if you continue to make those granules into butter, you will have butter that is water logged or soggy.
1906 Macmillan's Mag. June 608 A large quantity of water-logged, milk-blended butter was being manufactured for the purpose of being sold fraudulently.
1956 ‘I. English’ Every Eye 113 There was a basket of sliced house bread and a large dish exposing four pats of waterlogged butter.

Derivatives

ˈwaterloggedness n.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [noun]
saturation1732
waterloggedness1854
soddenness1883
sogginess1884
soppiness1895
squishiness1929
1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 137 Saturation and waterloggedness and distention.
1910 P. McConnell Compl. Farmer ii. 39 Absolute waterloggednessi.e., every space and pore filled with water—only occurs at well-depth.
2008 M. Schilthuizen Loom of Life iv. 50 All possible combinations of waterloggedness and dryness could be encountered among the hundreds of quadrats.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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