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sopping

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sop·ping  (spng)
adj.
Thoroughly soaked; drenched.
adv.
Extremely; very: sopping wet.
sopping [ˈsɒpɪŋ]
adj
completely soaked; wet through Also sopping wet
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Adv.1.sopping - extremely wet; "dripping wet"; "soaking wet"
dripping, soaking
Translations
sopping [ˈsɒpɪŋ] ADJ it's sopping (wet) → está empapado
he was sopping wet → estaba hecho una sopa, estaba calado or empapado hasta los huesos
sopping [ˈsɒpɪŋ] adj (also sopping wet) → tout(e) trempé(e)
sopping
adj (also sopping wet) → durchnässt, triefend; person → klitschnass
sopping [ˈsɒpɪŋ] adj (also sopping wet) → bagnato/a fradicio/a
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Trail, trail, went her long dress over the sopping grass, and she came back with her hands full of the hay that was cut yesterday--I suppose for rabbits or something, as she kept on smelling it.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
Next door was the kitchen, where they were washing up; white cooks were dipping their arms into cauldrons, while the waiters made their meal voraciously off broken meats, sopping up the gravy with bits of crumb.
The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context
By now the water in the cabin was up to the bunks, and the bed- clothes were sopping.
Tales of the Fish Patrol by London, Jack View in context
 
 
 
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