Synonyms for mop
mɒpmop

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1. mop

   To clean is to make clean by removing dirt, impurities, or soil of any kind. Cleanse implies a worse condition to start from, and more to do, than clean. Hercules cleansed the Augean stables. Cleanse is especially applied to purifying processes where liquid is used, as in the flushing of a street, etc. We brush clothing if dusty, sponge it, or sponge it off, if soiled; or sponge off a spot. Furniture, books, etc., are dusted; floors are mopped or scrubbed; metallic utensils are scoured; a room is swept; soiled garments are washed; foul air or water is purified. Cleanse and purify are used extensively in a moral sense; wash in that sense is archaic. Compare AMEND.

   Synonyms:
   brush, clean, cleanse, disinfect, dust, lave, purify, rinse, scour, scrub, sponge, sweep, wash, wipe

   Antonyms:
   befoul, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, contaminate, corrupt, debase, defile, deprave, pollute, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, vitiate

   Preposition:
   Cleanse of or from physical or moral defilement; cleanse with an instrument; by an agent; the room was cleansed by the attendants with soap and water.

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1. swab, swob, mopverb

   cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors

   Synonyms:
   swob, swab

2. wipe up, mop up, mopverb

   to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop

   "Mop the hallway now"; "He mopped her forehead with a towel"

   Synonyms:
   polish off, whip, wipe up, clear up, finish up, worst, rack up, mop up, pout, wrap up, pip, get through, finish off, mow

3. pout, mop, mowverb

   make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

   "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted"

   Synonyms:
   wipe up, mow, mop up, pout, brood, sulk, cut down

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1. devour

   eating with breathtaking ferocity .

   i’m so hungry im going to mop this plate!

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. mopnoun

   Synonyms:
   malkin, swab, merkin (cannon mop)

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1. List of paraphrases for "mop":

   rp, psr, magp, ilo, pr, mgp, rdp, pom, broom, pcr, rps, broomstick, pdb, pdr

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How to use mop in a sentence?

1. Whoopi Goldberg:

   Maybe one day they'll make a movie about a skinny white lady who invented a mop. ... Of course a black girl would have to invent the cure for cancer before they even give her a TV movie.

2. Success Next time someone:

   Procter Gamble came to us in 1995 with their idea of an improved mop. I looked at it and said this isn't a mop at all. It was so different.

3. Lindsey Graham:

   Hillary Clinton will mop the floor with these guys if the response of our two leading candidates for president is that after 9/11 they would not have gone into Afghanistan to take the Taliban down.

4. United States:

   Hair works a bit like a mop, collecting pollen that's floating in the air, since hair is the closest thing to your nasal passages, it can really bother you. If you wash it or brush it out before you go to sleep, or at least cover it, then you won't be sleeping in all that pollen.

5. Cal Fire Captain Lucas Spelman:

   Cal Fire is not progressing any longer, which is good, we are in the stage of being able to go in there and mop up.