"sop up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sops up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sopping up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sopped up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sopped up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, May-lee Chai, Dragon Chica, page 217:",
          "text": "The smell of my vomit was overpowering. I thought I might retch again. Quickly, I gathered up some paper towels and sopped up my mess.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To absorb, to soak up."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "absorb",
          "absorb"
        ],
        [
          "soak up",
          "soak up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To absorb, to soak up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sop up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sops up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sopping up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sopped up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sopped up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "sop up (third-person singular simple present sops up, present participle sopping up, simple past and past participle sopped up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, May-lee Chai, Dragon Chica, page 217:",
          "text": "The smell of my vomit was overpowering. I thought I might retch again. Quickly, I gathered up some paper towels and sopped up my mess.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To absorb, to soak up."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "absorb",
          "absorb"
        ],
        [
          "soak up",
          "soak up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To absorb, to soak up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sop up"
}