sop up

sop something up

to mop or soak up a liquid. Use this rag to sop the spilled milk up. The rag will sop up the mess a little at a time.

To take something up by absorption; absorb something: We sopped up the water with paper towels. I sopped the sauce up with a piece of bread.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
ŠImo	-	Croatian
Hawthorne	['hɔ:θɔ:n]
Lycus	-	Greek Mythology (Latinized), Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Asuka	ah-soo-kah	Japanese
Teuta	-	Albanian
Cunigund	-	Ancient Germanic