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View synonyms for sop up

sop up

verb

  1. tr, adverb to mop or take up (spilt water, etc) with or as if with a sponge
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He couldn't get anything that would sop up oil and hold a light for half a minute.

She flung a towel down to sop up the tiny flood, and saw it swiftly crimson before her eyes.

I remember one of them used a slice of bread to sop up blood like gravy.

Like sponges they sop up the limited quantity of selling chances they happen to get.

And it's surprising ain't it, what a lot of information you can sop up when you do the sponge act in earnest?

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