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Definition of Sop up
1. Verb. Take in, also metaphorically. "She drew strength from the minister's words"
Specialized synonyms: Mop, Mop Up, Wipe Up, Blot, Sponge Up
Derivative terms: Absorber, Absorption, Imbiber, Suck, Sucker
Also: Draw In, Draw In, Suck In
2. Verb. Take up as if with a sponge.
Definition of Sop up
1. Verb. To absorb, to soak up. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sop Up
Literary usage of Sop up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"... Sorrel (2), of a reddish-brown colour, to sop up); regularly formed from sop- (F.
— Teut.) OF sorti; il num. from (Tent. *sup-} weaker grade of supan, ..."
2. Webster's Elementary-school Dictionary: Abridged from Webster's New by Noah Webster (1914)
"To soak up;—usually with up; as, to sop up water. — vi To soak in. sophism (sof
Tz' m). n. A plausible but fallacious argument. Sophist, n. 1. ..."
3. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1886)
"I was bitterly disappointed, for the nervous strain had produced in me a craving
for drink such as I had never felt before, and I even tried to sop up some ..."
4. American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a by Thomas Valentine Cooper (1892)
"In one case thirty-five persons were put on the " lapse fund " of tin; Treasurer's
office for eight days at the end of the fiscal year, to sop up some money ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... wells is often so small, in comparison with their distance apart, that the
friction would completely sop up the whole of the available hydrostatic head. ..."
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