Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb sop

4 senses of sop

Sense 1
sop -- (give a conciliatory gift or bribe to)
       => bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms -- (make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought")

Sense 2
sop, soak through -- (be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid)
       => ooze through -- (run slowly and gradually; "Blood oozed through the bandage")

Sense 3
sop -- (dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce")
       => dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse -- (immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint")

Sense 4
drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse -- (cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face")
       => wet -- (cause to become wet; "Wet your face")

Synonyms of adv sopping

1 sense of sopping

Sense 1
soaking, sopping, dripping -- (extremely wet; "dripping wet"; "soaking wet")

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