soap
/soʊp/ verb C2- To apply soap to in washing. · Be sure to soap yourself well before rinsing.
- To cover, lather, or in any other manner treat with soap, often as a prank. · Those kids soaped my windows!
- To be discreet about (a topic).
- To flatter; to wheedle.
He/she/it soaps · Past soaped · Past participle soaped · -ing form soaping
Verb forms
- Base form
- soap
- He/she/it
- soaps
- Past
- soaped
- Past participle
- soaped
- -ing form
- soaping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Old Anthony Rockwall, retired manufacturer and proprietor of Rockwall’s Eureka Soap, looked out the library window of his Fifth Avenue mansion and grinned.
Van Schuylight Suffolk-Jones—came out to his waiting motor-car, wrinkling a contumelious nostril, as usual, at the Italian renaissance sculpture of the soap palace’s front elevation.
“Stuck-up old statuette of nothing doing!” commented the ex-Soap King.
“Richard,” said Anthony Rockwall, “what do you pay for the soap that you use?”
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