Sop Up

Definition: Sop Up

Sop Up

Verb

1. Take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words".

2. Take up as if with a sponge.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Sop Up

Economic History

Uzbekistan

SMEs have grown from a mere one percent of GDP in 1991 to 38% in 2000; the government hopes that SMEs will provide the necessary job growth to sop up excess labor from heavy industry and agriculture. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

German

aufnehmen (absorb, admit, affiliate, assimilate, begin, book, commence, enroll, enter into, establish, film, grabbing, hold, include, incorporate, ingest, list, photograph, pick up, raise, receive, record, take, take down, take in, take on, take up, tape, to absorb, to affiliate, to assimilate, to host, to incorporate, to ingest, to record, twist, write in). (various references)

Hebrew 

לספו�' (absorb, adsorb, blot, imbibe, sponge), ל� �'ב (absterge, dry, mop, swab, towel, wipe). (various references)

Italian

bere (drink, drinking, have, imbibe, swallow), assorbire (absorb, adsorb, assimilate, blot, engross, imbibe, merge, preoccupy, soak up, sponge, suck). (various references)

Pig Latin

opsay upay

Russian 

впитывать (absorb, drink in, imbibe, soak in, soak up). (various references)

Spanish

absorber (absorb, absorber, drink in, engross, lap up, occlude, preoccupy, soak up, suck in, take up). (various references)

Swedish

suga upp (absorb, imbibe, siphon off, soak up). (various references)

Thai

ล้างออก. (various references)

Turkish

içine çekmek (engulf, imbibe, inhale, inspire, suck, suck in, suck up, swallow, swallow up), emmek (absorb, adsorb, drink in, occlude, siphon off, soak, soak in, suck, suck in, suck up, syphon off), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: opus, pops, pups, soup.

-2 letters: ops, pop, pup, pus, sop, sou, sup, upo, ups.

-3 letters: op, os, so, up, us.

+2 letters: oppugns, pappous, polypus, pompous, popguns, pulpous, purpose, support, suppose, upprops.

+3 letters: eohippus, papulose, polypous, populism, populist, populous, postcoup, purports, purposed, purposes, supercop, superpro, supports, supposal, supposed, supposer, supposes, trappous, uptempos.

+4 letters: oppugners, overpumps, peponiums, polypuses, pompously, populaces, populates, populisms, populists, propounds, pseudopod, pulpwoods, pupations, puppydoms, purposely, purposing, purposive, soupspoon, supercops, superport, superpose, superpros, supported, supporter, supposals, supposers, supposing, unopposed, unpeoples, unstopped, unstopper, uppermost.

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