Verb
The word is derived from sop
of Sop
Source: Webster's dictionaryThey came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions. Virginia Woolf
Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up. Jim Rogers
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. Will Self