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 wetted
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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Verb
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By daybreak, we were soaked, hungry, and exhausted.—
Derek Horner,
Outdoor Life,
8 Oct. 2025 -
Every four weeks, the researchers re-soaked the wraps in case the permethrin wore off.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
7 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Annual research and development spending by US companies, which hit $202 billion in 2000, only dipped slightly the following year and never again fell below $200 billion.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Last season, television viewership dipped.—
Jessica Golden,
CNBC,
10 Oct. 2025
Verb
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They are believed to have drowned, authorities said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Oct. 2025
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The previous day, there had been a tragedy in Texas, in which young girls at a summer camp had drowned in a flash flood.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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To help keep leaves, whole or chopped, in place during high winds or flooding rains, wet them down with a hose.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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But the comedy is absolutely something that wets my beak, I'm drawn to it.—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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To watch this film is to be fully immersed in a learning experience, while teetering on the edge of your seat, with your heart in your mouth.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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Tate recently spoke with The Charlotte Observer about the inspiration behind the event, her experience growing up immersed in a family of artists and how her insatiable curiosity led her to see dance as a tool to understand and preserve history.—
Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Strategy conversations are saturated with the language of acceleration—first-mover advantages, blitzscaling, hypergrowth.—
Harvard Business Review,
Harvard Business Review,
10 Oct. 2025
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The picture looks rich and detailed, and the colors are saturated in both dark and light scenes.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 Oct. 2025
Verb
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My poetry began as a father’s sly growl, became a spectacle on a rickety stage washed in limelight, and now is a 70-year-old woman’s walk back into a thousand yesterdays.—
Via Scribner,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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For those in charge of protecting the biosphere, keeping the beaches on the peninsula’s eastern side free of trash washed in from the sea is a constant struggle.—
Simon Willis,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
Verb
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But Jane ducked under his hands and moved forward to the cage, a distance of about six feet.—
Ron Arias,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
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Gardner ducked under the dark cloth and focused the image on the ground glass of his camera.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Sopped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sopped. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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