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sopsnounpl. of sop 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 backhanders(British), boodles, bribes, cumshaws, fixes baksheeshs, kickbacks, payoffsslush fundsincentives, incitements, instigations, motivations, provocations, spurs, stimulations, stimuliboosts, encouragements, goads, inducementsallurements, baits, enticements, lures, seductions, temptations, turn-onsflatteries, persuasionsdecoys, snares, traps to wet thoroughly with liquidsopped the sponge with the detergent and began scrubbing the floor vigorously drenches, drowns, impregnates, macerates, saturates, soaks, soddens, souses, steeps waterlogs, water-soaksmarinates, seethespresoaksdips, immerses, inundates, submerges, swampsbathes, douses(also dowses), hydrates, swills, washes, watersinfiltrates, penetrates, permeatesdampens, damps, humidifies, moistens wrings (out) dehydrates, desiccates, dries, parches, searsdrains, empties, voidsdehumidifies to make wetmy book fell in the swimming pool and was thoroughly sopped before I could fish it out bathes, bedraggles, douses(also dowses), drenches, drowns, soaks, soddens, souses, washes, waterlogs, waters, water-soaks, wets, wets down asperses, bedews, dampens, damps, drizzles, humidifies, hydrates, mists, moistens, moisturizes, showers, sprinklesdeluges, floods, hoses (down), inundates, overflowssubmerges, swampssplashesimpregnates, saturates, steepsflushes, irrigates, laves, rinses, sloshes, sluicesdips, ducks, dunksrehydrates, rewashes, rewets dehydrates, desiccates, dries, parches, scorches, sears dewaters, evaporates, freeze-driesdrip-dries, wringsdehumidifies 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 dips, douses(also dowses), ducks, dunks, immerses, souses, submerges, submerses bathes, moistens, soaks, steeps, wetsdrenches, drowns, floodsdives, plunges, thrusts |