1. Take up as if with a sponge
   "The cloth sopped up the paint";
   - take in, suck in, take up
    
2. Take in, also metaphorically
   "The sponge sops up water well";
   - absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, suck up, draw, take in, take up

Derived forms: sopping up, sops up, sopped up

See also: suck

Type of: act, consume, have, ingest, move, take, take in