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WATERLOGGED
boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
(adjective) (of soil) soft and watery; “the ground was boggy under foot”; “a marshy coastline”; “miry roads”; “wet mucky lowland”; “muddy barnyard”; “quaggy terrain”; “the sloughy edge of the pond”; “swampy bayous”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
waterlogged (comparative more waterlogged, superlative most waterlogged)
soaked with water
(nautical) in danger of sinking because of excess water onboard
Synonyms
• (soaked with water): drenched, saturated, sodden; see also wet
Source: Wiktionary
Wa"ter-logged, a.
Definition: Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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