Sopping

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sop \Sop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sopped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Sopping}.]
     To steep or dip in any liquid.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  sop
       n 1: piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid [syn: {sops}]
       2: a concession given to mollify or placate; "the offer was a
          sop to my feelings"
       3: a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely; "rote
          memorization has been the educator's standard operating
          procedure for centuries" [syn: {standing operating
          procedure}, {standard operating procedure}, {standard
          procedure}]
       v 1: give a conciliatory gift or bribe to
       2: be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid
          [syn: {soak through}]
       3: dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce"
       4: mop so as to leave a semi-dry surface; "swab the floors"
       5: become thoroughly soaked or saturated with liquid
       6: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot
          face" [syn: {drench}, {douse}, {dowse}, {soak}, {souse}]
       [also: {sopping}, {sopped}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sopping
       adj : wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door
             drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated
             with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or
             soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy
             clothes" [syn: {drenched}, {saturated}, {soaked}, {soaking},
              {sodden}, {soppy}]
       adv : extremely wet; "dripping wet"; "soaking wet" [syn: {soaking},
              {dripping}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sopping
       See {sop}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "sopping":
     awash, bathed, brewing, dampening, deluged, dipped, drench,
     drenched, drenching, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned,
     ducking, dunking, engulfed, flooded, humectant, imbruement,
     imbuement, immersed, impregnation, infiltration, infusion,
     injection, inundated, irrigational, irriguous, leaching,
     lixiviation, macerated, maceration, moistening, oozing, overflowed,
     percolation, permeated, permeation, pulping, saturated, saturation,
     seeping, seething, soak, soakage, soaked, soaking, soaking wet,
     soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping wet, soppy, souse, soused, sousing,
     steeped, steeping, submerged, submersed, swamped, watering,
     waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, wetting,
     whelmed, wringing wet