Definition of "waterlog" [waterlog]

• To make (a boat, for example) heavy and unwieldy by flooding with water. (verb-transitive)
• To saturate with water and make soggy or unusable. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Plugged sewers, deluged tunnels and streets reverting to rivers will conspire to waterlog foundations and destabilize their huge loads, toppling structures."
• " The green-scaled surface was swirled with oil-slick, orange and yellow in the patchy light, and pieces trash often floated in the middle, unnatural blossoms waiting to waterlog into the mud."
• "But if you're already time travelling -- why not go ahead a bit to find a good fire-suppression system that doesn't waterlog?"