Sopping
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sopping is an adjective meaning Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.
Meaning
Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of sop
- A soaking.
Example Sentences
There were hot miseries and cold miseries; saline unpleasantries, partial wettings and complete soppings; […]
The grass was wet and the earth smelled of springtime. Fern's sneakers were sopping by the time she caught up with her father.
A swirling, sopping, doomladen midmorning, take my word for it, and myself, as I say, an unborn ghost, not ordered, not delivered and certainly not paid for: myself a deaf microphone, planted but inactive in any but the biological meaning.
Word Forms
- soppings
Synonyms for sopping
Depending on context, synonyms include sodden, wet, saturated, soaked, drenched, soppy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include soaked, drenched, sodden, soppy, wet, soaking.
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