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Mopped

Mop \Mop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Mopping.] To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.

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mopped

vb. (en-pastmop)

WordNet
mop
  1. v. to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop; "Mop the hallway now"; "He mopped her forehead with a towel" [syn: wipe up, mop up]

  2. make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted" [syn: pout, mow]

  3. [also: mopping, mopped]

mop
  1. n. cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors [syn: swab, swob]

  2. [also: mopping, mopped]

mopped

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Usage examples of "mopped".

Carefully he extended his wet glistening wings, holding them aloft in the slight breeze while Sean, with Sorka’s help, mopped his underparts dry.

If they mopped up the Yoered Family now, they'd just be replaced by someone younger and hungrier and cruder.

He swivelled his head around to glare at the bustling crowd of workers and technicians, and wrinkled his nose at the sewage, now being mopped up.

Nancia's housekeeping probes mopped up the green puddles on the cabin floor.

He pulled his sweaty tunic off over his head, and mopped his face with the tails.

She handed Whit a square of cloth and he mopped his eyes and blew his nose before speaking in a choked voice.

Absently he mopped a wine spill near the precious violin, one of the few usable relics from Landing days.

He cleared his throat and mopped his face, reluctant to commit himself.

Piemur mopped his sweaty forehead with one hand as he gratefully slid the marks into his pouch.

He mopped his face, sweating even in the shade of the leaf-canopied trace, and let his pounding heart and the thudding pulse in his temples subside to a calmer rhythm.

She removed the sweatband from her forehead, mopped her brow, and retied the kerchief.

He mopped some of the tears from the coal-dust-smeared face and touched Kindan tenderly on the head.

He mopped the rest of the soup from his bowl with a fresh piece of bread.

He mopped the sweat off his cheeks and lit a cigarette and inhaled deeply.

And then when Brian Kwok had been carried out to be brought to this room, clean and nice and the Red Room had been mopped clean, Roger Crosse had said, "All right, Robert, try it, then you'll see.