Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - mopping mopped

~ v 1 to wash a floor with a wet mop 2 to dry your face by rubbing it with a cloth or something soft  (It was so hot he had to keep stopping to mop his face. | mop your brow (=remove sweat2 (1) from your forehead)) 3 to remove liquid from a surface by rubbing it with a cloth or something soft  (mop sth from sth)  (The nurse gently mopped the blood from the wound. | mop sth away)  (She mopped the tears away with a lacy handkerchief.) 4 mop the floor with AmE wipe the floor with BrE to completely defeat someone, for example in a game or argument  (We mopped the floor with the team from Pomona High.) mop sth up phr v 1 to remove liquid with a mop, cloth, or something soft, especially in order to clean a surface  (Can you mop up the milk you've spilled? | Mop up the sauce with your bread.) 2 to deal with the remaining members of a defeated army by killing them or making them prisoners  (mopping up isolated pockets of resistance | mopping-up operations)  (The rebellion has been crushed, but mopping-up operations may take several weeks.) 3 BrE to complete a piece of work or finish dealing with something or someone  (I've just got a couple of jobs to mop up before I go on holiday.)