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vb. (en-third-person singularmop up)
Usage examples of "mops up".
She mops up the blood then bends down to pick up the empty purse that I've discarded on the floor.
He leaned against a thick balustrade and watched while workmen ran mops up and down marble stairs, whisking away the day’.
The haemoglobin in the red corpuscles has a greater affinity for carbon monoxide than for oxygen, so it mops up any carbon monoxide you breath in, and oxygen is disregarded.
He proposed mechanisms by which Vitamin C does its job, both as a substance that mops up free chemical radicals in cells and as a component of a cancer-cell inhibiting chemical called PHI.
Not speaking, he mops up the pool of vomit between Mouse's shoulder and the backrest of the couch.
Full-size turnpike cruisers no longer earn much of a market share, and for those die-hards who still want one from the Ford Motor Company, the Mercury Grand Marquis is the same car in fancier clothes for about the same money, so it mops up the private sales.
Colonel Briggs and Sergeant Major Wohl will command a special-ops unit based at Battle Mountain-equipped with the Tin Man battle armor technology and trained to be the ground force that mops up after the Megafortresses attack.
Now as then the Arab broadcasts boast of huge successes, and now as then, the noncommittal Israeli reports are a strategic deception, he is certain, to stave off a UN ceasefire while Zahal mops up the enemy.