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sopnoun something given or promised in order to improperly influence a person's conduct or decisionas a sop to the teachers' union for supporting his reelection campaign, the mayor promised to push for the abolition of the residency requirement backhander(British), boodle, bribe, cumshaw, fix baksheesh, kickback, payoffslush fundincentive, incitement, instigation, motivation, provocation, spur, stimulation, stimulusboost, encouragement, goad, inducementallurement, bait, enticement, lure, seduction, temptation, turn-onflattery, persuasiondecoy, snare, trap sopverbto wet thoroughly with liquidsopped the sponge with the detergent and began scrubbing the floor vigorously drench, drown, impregnate, macerate, saturate, soak, sodden, souse, steep waterlog, water-soakmarinate, seethepresoakdip, immerse, inundate, submerge, swampbathe, douse(also dowse), hydrate, swill, wash, waterinfiltrate, penetrate, permeatedamp, dampen, humidify, moisten wring (out) dehydrate, desiccate, dry, parch, seardrain, empty, voiddehumidify to make wetmy book fell in the swimming pool and was thoroughly sopped before I could fish it out bathe, bedraggle, douse(also dowse), drench, drown, soak, sodden, souse, wash, water, water-soak, waterlog, wet, wet down asperse, bedew, damp, dampen, drizzle, humidify, hydrate, mist, moisten, moisturize, shower, sprinkledeluge, flood, hose (down), inundate, overflowsubmerge, swampsplashimpregnate, saturate, steepflush, irrigate, lave, rinse, slosh, sluicedip, duck, dunkrehydrate, rewash, rewet dehydrate, desiccate, dry, parch, scorch, sear dewater, evaporate, freeze-drydrip-dry, wringdehumidify to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquidhesitant to sop his bread in gravy, no matter how delicious, at such a formal banquet dip, douse(also dowse), duck, dunk, immerse, souse, submerge, submerse bathe, moisten, soak, steep, wetdrench, drown, flooddive, plunge, thrust before the 12th century |