Definitions for sopping

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sopping sop·ping

Spelling: [sop-ing]

IPA: /ˈsɒp ɪŋ/

Sopping is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in sopping (ginopps).

Definitions for sopping

noun

1. a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
2. anything thoroughly soaked.
3. something given to pacify or quiet, or as a bribe:
4. a weak-willed or spineless person; milksop.

adjective

1. soaked; drenched:

verb (used with object)

1. to dip or soak in liquid food:
2. to drench.
3. to take up (liquid) by absorption (usually followed by up):

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become soaking wet.
2. (of a liquid) to soak (usually followed by in).

Origin of sopping

First recorded in 1525-35; sop + -ing²

Examples for sopping

There in the sopping lowlands they are harvesting the last marsh hay.

Dr. Kent Sepkowitz on why you should sleep easy on your sopping wet mattress.

She took off her sopping frock, and gave it to the woman to hang up.

By now the water in the cabin was up to the bunks, and the bed-clothes were sopping.

He was startled: like a sponge, sopping up the atmosphere, she darkened.

Mrs. Peakslow went on again, sopping her eyes with the remnant of rags.

They were muddy and sopping wet and steam was rising off them.

In an instant her bonnet, her shawl, her dress, were all sopping.

Whether it actually works or not, the summons to dig deep within yourself is journey enough for our sopping wet heroes.

Her eyes burst into another flood, and she gave up the job of sopping it.