Word Study
sopping (root: sop)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial sopping has 1 sense
- sopping(r = adv.all) dripping, soaking - extremely wet; "dripping wet"; "soaking wet"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sopping, adj. (also sopping wet) soaked with liquid; wet through.
Etymology
pres. part. of SOP v.
THESAURUS
sopping
awash, bathed, brewing, dampening, deluged, dipped, drench, drenched, drenching, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, ducking, dunking, engulfed, flooded, humectant, imbruement, imbuement, immersed, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, injection, inundated, irrigational, irriguous, leaching, lixiviation, macerated, maceration, moistening, oozing, overflowed, percolation, permeated, permeation, pulping, saturated, saturation, seeping, seething, soak, soakage, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping wet, soppy, souse, soused, sousing, steeped, steeping, submerged, submersed, swamped, watering, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, wetting, whelmed, wringing wet
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