sopping

comparative more sopping · superlative most sopping

1. Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.

   The grass was wet and the earth smelled of springtime. Fern's sneakers were sopping by the time she caught up with her father.

   1952, Garth Williams, Charlotte's web

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   A swirling, sopping, doomladen midmorning, take my word for it, and myself, as I say, an unborn ghost, not ordered, not delivered and certainly not paid for: myself a deaf microphone, planted but inactive in any but the biological meaning.

   1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of sop

plural soppings

1. A soaking.

   There were hot miseries and cold miseries; saline unpleasantries, partial wettings and complete soppings; […]

   1889, William Dawes, Elijer Goff's Complete Works, page 101