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sopping

sopping adjective: soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping. Also the present participle and gerund of sop.

Adjective

sopping (comparative more sopping, superlative most sopping)

  1. Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.
    • The grass was wet and the earth smelled of springtime. Fern's sneakers were sopping by the time she caught up with her father.1952, Garth Williams, Charlotte's web
    • A swirling, sopping, doomladen midmorning, take my word for it, and myself, as I say, an unborn ghost, not ordered, not delivered and certainly not paid for: myself a deaf microphone, planted but inactive in any but the biological meaning.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy

Noun

sopping (plural soppings)

  1. A soaking.
    • There were hot miseries and cold miseries; saline unpleasantries, partial wettings and complete soppings; […]1889, William Dawes, Elijer Goff's Complete Works, page 101

Also used as

sopping is also the present participle and gerund of sop.

Forms of sopping

Adjective
comparativemore sopping
superlativemost sopping
Noun
pluralsoppings

Words formed from sopping

Phrases with sopping

Words that rhyme with sopping

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Questions about sopping

What does sopping mean?
Sopping means soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.
What part of speech is sopping?
Sopping can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near sopping in the dictionary

  1. soppes
  2. soppier
  3. soppiest
  4. soppily
  5. soppiness
  6. sopping
  7. sopping up
  8. sopping wet
  9. soppingly
  10. soppings
  11. Soppitt

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