Sentence:  But 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 <WSD>soddened</WSD> it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To drench, soak or saturate.