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soaping

soaping is the present participle and gerund of soap.

Meaning of soap

Verb

soap (third-person singular simple present soaps, present participle soaping, simple past and past participle soaped)

  1. (transitive) To apply soap to in washing.
    • Be sure to soap yourself well before rinsing.
  2. (informal, transitive) To cover, lather, or in any other manner treat with soap, often as a prank.
    • Those kids soaped my windows!
  3. (informal, transitive) To be discreet about (a topic).
  4. (dated, slang) To flatter; to wheedle.

See all 10 meanings of soap

Noun

soaping (plural soapings)

  1. A cleaning with soap.

Forms of soaping

pluralsoapings

Words formed from soaping

Phrases with soaping

Questions about soaping

What does soaping mean?
Soaping means a cleaning with soap.
What is soaping the present participle and gerund of?
Soaping is the present participle and gerund of soap.
What part of speech is soaping?
Soaping is a noun.
What is the plural of soaping?
The plural of soaping is soapings.

Words near soaping in the dictionary

  1. soapifies
  2. soapify
  3. soapifying
  4. soapily
  5. soapiness
  6. soaping
  7. soaping down
  8. soaping off
  9. soaping up
  10. soapings
  11. soapland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soaping (page history and authors); soap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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