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Mop up   /mɑp əp/   Listen
Mop up

verb
1.
To wash or wipe with or as if with a mop.  Synonyms: mop, wipe up.  "He mopped her forehead with a towel"
2.
Defeat thoroughly.  Synonyms: pip, rack up, whip, worst.
3.
Finish a task completely.  Synonyms: clear up, finish off, finish up, get through, polish off, wrap up.





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"Mop up" Quotes from Famous Books



... Range 18, West of the 5th Principal Meridian, I lose my mental reserve and become anxious and even taciturn. For thirty years I had yearned to see a grown up cyclone, of the ring-tail-puller variety, mop up the green earth with huge forest trees and make the landscape look tired. On the 9th day of September, A.D. 1884, ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye


Words linked to "Mop up" :   graduation, finishing, finalization, ending, take in, soak up, trounce, consummation, follow-through, take up, vanquish, swab, imbibe, complete, finalisation, suck up, draw, absorb, swob, conclusion, suck, sop up, crush, beat, termination, sponge, cap off, whip, finish, beat out, shell


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