Sop

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  • transitive verb. To dip, soak, or drench in a liquid; saturate.
  • transitive verb. To take up by absorption.
  • noun. A piece of food soaked or dipped in a liquid.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Something yielded to placate or soothe.
  • noun. A bribe.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An abbreviation of soprano.
  • noun. Something soaked; a morsel, as of bread, dipped in a liquid before being eaten; a piece of bread softened, as in broth or milk, or intended to be so softened.
  • noun. Hence A morsel of food; a small portion of food or drink; a mouthful; a bite.
  • noun. Something given to pacify or quiet; a bribe: so used in allusion to the sop given to Cerberus in order to secure a quiet entrance to the lower world.
  • noun. A small piece; a fragment: a particle; hence, a trifle; a thing of little or no value.
  • To dip or soak in a liquid.
  • To take up by absorption: followed by up: as, to sop up water with a sponge.
  • To soak in; penetrate, as a liquid; percolate.
  • To be drenched; be soaked with wet: as, his clothes were sopping with rain.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To steep or dip in any liquid.
  • noun. Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.
  • noun. Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.
  • noun. A thing of little or no value.
  • noun. an old name of the clove pink, alluding to its having been used to flavor wine.
  • noun. an old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; -- called also sopsavine, and red shropsavine.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Something entirely soaked.
  • noun. A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
  • noun. Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
  • noun. A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
  • noun. Gravy. (Appalachian)
  • verb. To steep or dip in any liquid.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a concession given to mollify or placate
  • verb. dip into liquid
  • verb. be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid
  • verb. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
  • noun. piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid
  • noun. a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely
  • verb. give a conciliatory gift or bribe to
  • Word Usage
    "The utility on Friday said it would begin initial compensation payments of up to ¥1 million, or about $12,000, to residents from an 18-mile zone around the plant—an offer some evacuees called an insufficient, short-term sop."
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    Form
    sippet  sop up  sopped  sopping  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bit  bite  bribe  buy  concession  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bopp  Pop  atop  bop  chop  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Milquetoast  absorb  ass  baby  baksheesh  
    variant
    sopped  sopping  
    verb-form
    sopped  sopping  sops