Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To steep or dip in any liquid.

    dip into liquid

  2. (intransitive)To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. He gave me the sop.

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  2. It's a sop to Congress.

    ruЭто подачка Конгрессу. — Hellerick

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  3. It's a sop to Cerberus.

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Origin

From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-G

From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *sūpaną (“to sup”). Doublet of soup; more at sup.

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Forms

sops, sopping, sopped, sopped
Base formsop · to sop
3rd person singularsops
Present participlesopping
Past simplesopped
Past participlesopped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysop
he, she, itsops

Past simpleLesson

all personssopped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sopped
he, she, ithas sopped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sop

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid:soak through
  • cover with liquid; pour liquid onto:drenchdousedowsesoaksouse

Word family

6 related words
Derivedsippetsoppersoppysop upsoursopsweetsop

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sootsootheB1sootysophistsophisticate

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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