sopping

[US]/'sɒpɪŋ/
[UK]/'sɑpɪŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. y adj. completamente mojado.
Word Forms
Gerundiosopping

Phrases & Collocations

sopping wet

empapado

sopping bread

pan empapado

Example Sentences

She came in from the rain, sopping wet.

Ella entró desde la lluvia, empapada.

He handed her a sopping towel.

Él le entregó una toalla empapada.

The sopping clothes needed to be wrung out before drying.

La ropa empapada necesitaba ser escurrida antes de secarla.

The sopping sponge soaked up all the spilled water.

La esponja empapada absorbió toda la agua derramada.

She was sopping up the spilled milk with a cloth.

Ella estaba absorbiendo la leche derramada con un paño.

The sopping raincoat dripped water on the floor.

El impermeable empapado goteaba agua en el suelo.

He wrung out the sopping mop before continuing to clean.

Él escurrió el trapeador empapado antes de continuar limpiando.

The sopping wet umbrella left a puddle on the floor.

El paraguas empapado dejó un charco en el suelo.

The sopping bread soaked up the soup quickly.

El pan empapado absorbió la sopa rápidamente.

She squeezed the sopping cloth over the sink.

Ella exprimió el paño empapado sobre el lavabo.

Real-world Examples

But I-I can't yell at her because she's a sopping mess.

Source: Modern Family - Season 07

Fern's sneakers were sopping by the time she caught up with her father.

Source: Charlotte's Web

Emerging, from his goblet, coughing, sopping wet but still grinning, he saw something calculated to raise his spirits even higher.

Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

This was clean, potable water, not something already cast away in a sopping towel.

Source: "Dune" audiobook

“Don't ask me, ” Myrtle shouted, emerging with a wave of yet more water, which splashed onto the already sopping floor.

Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Aerobic organisms, which can use oxygen for energy, started sopping up some of the excess gas in the atmosphere.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

Winky did stop crying, but when she sat up she was glaring at Hermione through her massive brown eyes, her whole face sopping wet and suddenly furious.

Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I had been so nervous that I had dropped some of his lunch down his lap and was now trying in vain to mop it up, so that a good patch of his trousers was sopping wet.

Source: Me Before You

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