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What does waterlog mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) to make a boat heavy and in danger of sinking by flooding with water
  2. (transitive) to saturate something with water
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He also became a leading opponent to the Cardiff Barrage, backed by the Tory government and some Welsh Labour MPs, because he feared it would waterlog his constituency.
Roger Deakin, whose aquatic voyage round Britain is charted in his book, Waterlog, believes the roots of our deep affinity with water are primeval.
One evening of full-fledged rain in April was enough to waterlog the streets.
For instance, the constant and reliable irrigation a dam provides can waterlog the ground.
Furthermore, with particular reference to irrigation, waterlog problem prevalent in the Niger Delta, could be further aggravated through pumpage from the surface streams.
Don't use too big a container because the compost may waterlog, suffocating the roots.

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