Difference between Soaking and Sopping

SOAKING vs SOPPING: NOUN

A steeping; a wetting; a drenching.
Intemperate and continual drinking. Compare soak, v. i., 4.
The operation of desilverizing a lead regulus by running it into a bath of molten lead in the fore-hearth of a blast-furnace; also the operation of equalizing the temperature of steel ingots in a soaking-pit.
Washing something by allowing it to soak
The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
The act of making something completely wet
Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.

Flooding, Dumping, Dipping, Immersing, Soakage, Sousing, Souse, Soppy, Saturated, Sodden, Wet, Dripping, Drenched, Drenching, Sopping

Shovelling, Drying, Sucking, Lathering, Mopping, Congealing, Extremely, Soppy, Wet, Saturated, Dripping, Drenched, Sodden, Soaked, Soaking

Penetrating, Swimming, Flooding, Dumping, Immersing, Soakage, Souse, Soppy, Saturated, Sodden, Wet, Dripping, Drenched, Drenching, Sopping

Draining, Shovelling, Drying, Sucking, Lathering, Congealing, Extremely, Soppy, Wet, Saturated, Dripping, Drenched, Sodden, Soaked, Soaking

Look of treated surfaces from soaking into stone.
Bristol is in for a soaking this weekend.
Flight itself was beyond disappointing, luggage soaking wet.
Keep the ground moist, but not soaking wet.
After the soaking time, drain off and discard the soaking water and rinse the beans with fresh cool water, draining well.
To speed up the soaking process, add a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda to the soaking water.
Soaking legumesand then discarding the soaking water can reduce the water soluble complex sugars which may cause the discomfort some people experience digesting legumes.
We recommend not soaking your heating coils unless you can avoid soaking the end with electrical components where it plugs into the stove.
The reason they have completely different cooking time is due to the soaking vs not soaking.
After soaking, drain the soaking liquid and rinse the food before eating or cooking.

You do not want the leather to be sopping wet or dripping, just moistened.
The longer your hair is sopping wet, more fragile and breakable they will become.
She mashed the sopping cloth against my skin, and a flood washed down.
Serve with rye or rustic bread for sopping up all the delicious juices.
Tackle everything from sopping towels to delicate blouses with our gas dryers.
It is the starch used for sopping up sauces, soups and raitas.
He was sopping with fever and out of his head.
The potting mix should be moist but not sopping wet.
He is constantly licking my head till its sopping wet.
Scoffing up stewgravy with sopping sippets of bread.