Definition of "water-logged" []

• 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. (adjective)

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• "All food and fresh water were below, and there was no getting at such supplies in the water-logged condition of the wreck."
• "Los Angeles firefighters and city crews worked for several hours Tuesday to rescue one of their own: a 22-ton firetruck that was nearly swallowed by a water-logged sinkhole."
• "When he wasn't ferrying supplies in by canoe, he was tossing a plastic bucket tied to twine into water-logged chambers and hauling up bilge water."