waterlogged

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   soaked or saturated with water

   The waterlogged timber was too heavy to lift without a winch.

2. 2
   adj

   of a boat or ship: filled with enough water to become unmanageable or at risk of sinking

   The crew abandoned the waterlogged vessel before the next storm arrived.

From water + logged, originally describing a ship so flooded that it lay heavy and unmanageable in the water, like a log. The adjective later broadened to saturated soil, timber, and other materials; the verb waterlog was formed from the same compound.

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