sopped

verb

past tense of sop
1
as in soaked
to wet thoroughly with liquid sopped the sponge with the detergent and began scrubbing the floor vigorously

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2
as in wet
to make wet my book fell in the swimming pool and was thoroughly sopped before I could fish it out

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3
as in dipped
to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid hesitant to sop his bread in gravy, no matter how delicious, at such a formal banquet

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sopped
  1. soaked
  2. wet
  3. dipped
  4. drowned
  5. washed
  6. immersed
  7. saturated
  8. flooded
Verb
  • Make sure the stains are thoroughly soaked, then wait 10 minutes.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2026
  • These microbes formed biopolymers that soaked the sand, creating a mesh that traps nearby particles.
    — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of soaked
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  • When the timer dinged, Ernest carried his rats to the sink and wet them gently, one at a time.
    — Madeline ffitch, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
  • One of these chambers contains a disc of fabric that is pre-wetted with water, one contains a foaming agent made up of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and sodium bicarbonate (the main component of baking soda), and one contains a drop of eye medication.
    — Ben Coxworth October 23, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of wet
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  • The team has dipped to a losing record for the first time all season since Week 1 and now has allowed the 3-4 Falcons a direct path to sole ownership of the NFC South later this weekend.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The number of Americans applying for unemployment claims dipped last week to 194,000 — the lowest since mid-July — as layoffs remain low and most Americans enjoy job security.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of dipped
Verb
  • Despite its size, 2026 ED138 was able to avoid detection for all these years because it’s located in a part of the night sky that’s crowded with stars whose light drowned it out.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
  • An active fan is better than an overheated laptop, but the Raider 16 Max HX B2W's excellent speakers don't do much good when the sound gets drowned out.
    — Marshall Honorof, PC Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of drowned
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  • There are also options of the classic, loose-fitting hip-length in washed medium-tone denim and versions lined with flannel.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
  • An employee washed hands without drying them with paper towels.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of washed
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  • In the fall of 2025, two years after Chody’s search began, the brand reached out and proposed a collaboration—one that she’d be immersed in from every step of the way.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Pollard has also been immersed in surrealism and dada, fitting genres for a musician and visual artist who has a knack for bending words and images to his will — either via hallucinatory lyrics or collages that mesh realms both physical and meta.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of immersed
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  • Old pollution that saturated the land was being flushed to the surface by rainfall, the reports argued.
    — Nick Bowlin, ProPublica, 27 Oct. 2026
  • After the chat has ended, the off-platform world appears saturated with patterns and meaningful coincidences.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of saturated
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  • The swells flooded parts of the Pacific Coast Highway, forcing the closure of multiple stretches of the road in Huntington Beach.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The town was flooded when the Nova Kakhovka Dam collapsed in 2023.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of flooded
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“Sopped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sopped. Accessed 4 Nov. 2026.

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