Sodden

From Middle English, from Old English soden, past participle of seoÃ¾an ("to cook", "to boil")

Full definition of sodden

1810, James Millar (physician) (editor), , Volume XII, 4th Edition, page 702,It is found, indeed, that meat, roaÅ¿ted by a fire of peat or turf, is more Å¿odden than when coal is employed for that purpoÅ¿e.
1895 February, James Rodway, Nature's Triumph, Popular Science, 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.

1857, Charles Dickens, , 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, Peter Hitchens, 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).

1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4But 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.