sop up
phrasal verb
sopped up; sopping up; sops up
: to remove (a liquid) from a surface by using soft paper, bread, etc.
He sopped up the gravy with pieces of bread.
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Amazonian white clay sops up extra oil and leaves you with a more mattified, radiant complexion.
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Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 3 Mar. 2025
The sampling menu after the show was catered by J’s Breakfast Club on Broadway in Gary and included everything from the simple fufu, a root dough used to sop up a stew, to seafood gumbo, jambalaya, and red beans and rice, among the dishes.
—Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
Order extra injera bread ($2) to sop up every ounce of flavor from the plate.
—Martin Vassolo, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Surface treatments can help make paper—which naturally sops up moisture from the air that could affect the device built on top—relatively impermeable.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2013
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Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 3 Mar. 2025
The sampling menu after the show was catered by J’s Breakfast Club on Broadway in Gary and included everything from the simple fufu, a root dough used to sop up a stew, to seafood gumbo, jambalaya, and red beans and rice, among the dishes.
—Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
Order extra injera bread ($2) to sop up every ounce of flavor from the plate.
—Martin Vassolo, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Surface treatments can help make paper—which naturally sops up moisture from the air that could affect the device built on top—relatively impermeable.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2013
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“Sop up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sop%20up. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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