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sopping up

sopping up is the present participle and gerund of sop up.

Meaning of sop up

Verb

sop up (third-person singular simple present sops up, present participle sopping up, simple past and past participle sopped up)

  1. (transitive) To absorb, to soak up.
    • The smell of my vomit was overpowering. I thought I might retch again. Quickly, I gathered up some paper towels and sopped up my mess.2011, May-lee Chai, Dragon Chica, page 217

Questions about sopping up

What is sopping up the present participle and gerund of?
Sopping up is the present participle and gerund of sop up.

Words near sopping up in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sopping up (page history and authors); sop up (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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