sopping up
Mopping the liquid
Sopping up is absorbing liquid with something porous—bread, a sponge, a towel.
You sop up gravy with a biscuit, sop up a spill with paper towels.
The action suggests thoroughness: He sopped up every last drop of sauce with his bread.
- absorbTake in fully
- mopping upCompleting final details
- cleaning upRemoving dirt, disorder
- breadLeavened flour product
- wiperGlass-clearing blade
mop · biscuit · towel · dish towel · rag · sponge · internalization · grasping · blotter · shammy · comprehension · pita · cloth · paper towel · naan · tortilla · imbibing · juices
liquid absorption vs. liquid release
sopping upwringing out
Twisting to extract liquid
squeezing out · expressing · draining · bleeding out · dripping
collecting vs. dispersing
sopping upspreading
Extending over space
dispersing · scattering · spraying · spilling · distributing