To make moist; to be moist.

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1845.  She sat down and sozzled her feet in the foam.—S. Judd, ‘Margaret,’ p. 8.

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1852.  Shabby, slipshod sisters sat silently and sadly sweating in the shade, while soiled and sozzling shirt-collars, and sticky shirts, stuck to such sap-heads as stirred in the sun.—Knick. Mag., xl. 183 (Aug.): from the Springfield Republican.

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