WATERLOGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waterlogged mean? 

• WATERLOGGED (adjective)
  The adjective WATERLOGGED has 1 sense:

1. (of soil) soft and watery

  Familiarity information: WATERLOGGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERLOGGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of soil) soft and watery

Synonyms:

boggy; marshy; miry; mucky; muddy; quaggy; sloppy; sloughy; soggy; squashy; swampy; waterlogged

Context example:

swampy bayous

Similar:

wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)

 Context examples 

Deep in the waterlogged peat of salt marshes, carbon is stored at much greater rates than in land ecosystems, serving as an offset to climate change caused by carbon dioxide (CO2) build-up in the atmosphere.

(Salt marshes' capacity to store carbon may be threatened by nitrogen pollution, National Science Foundation)