verb
sop
Take up liquid with absorbent material.
She sopped up the spill with a towel.
Etymology
The noun for soaked food supplied the verb for taking up liquid. Sopping something up transfers the same absorption to cloth or another suitable material.
More examples
- He used bread to sop up the sauce.
- The cloth quickly sopped up the water.
- They were sopping the liquid from the floor.
Forms
sop · sops · sopped · sopping