mop up's Usage Examples:

The campaign was successful, and plans were being made to mop up the remaining scattered Japanese troops in the vicinity of Shanghai and.

Other jobs include burn outs, gridding for spot fires, and mop up after the fire is controlled.

hose lays (hose rolled out on the ground for knocking down fires and for mop up).

It is used to soak up liquid, for cleaning floors and other surfaces, to mop up dust, or for other cleaning purposes.

reliever is known to be an ineffective former starter, he is often called the "mop up man" or "mop.

Crews continued to build and strengthen containment lines while mop up operations began in some area.

In 1943, in the mop up operation following the liquidation of Warsaw Ghetto, the hotel was used.

Following the Finnish surrender it was redeployed westward, helping to mop up pockets of enemy forces in the Baltic states in early 1945.

Synonyms:

suck up; soak up; mop; take in; take up; wipe up; absorb; swob; suck; swab; draw; imbibe; sponge; sop up;

Antonyms:

starve; adduct; abduct; repel; push;