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
Artur	ər-TOOR (Portuguese), ar-TOOR (Galician), AHR-tuwr (Polish), AHR-toor (German)	Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, Polish, Russian, German, Estonian, Swedish, Romanian, Czech
Elis	E-lis (Swedish)	Swedish, Medieval English
Tam (2)	-	Hebrew
Tabitha	['tæbiθə]
Maricela	-	Spanish
Ealdgy&Eth;	-	Anglo-Saxon