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soaping

  • present participle
    of soap.
    soap
    noun
    a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.

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He worked six days a week, hosing down cars, soaping them up and vacuuming inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025

Set up an assembly line from soaping and scrubbing to rinsing to drying.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Songul Yucesoy carefully washes her dishes, soaping the plates and cutlery before rinsing off the bubbles and laying them out to dry.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2023

Doing it while a shower is running and then soaping up, thus creating a steamy-sudsy environment, would be even better for masking the odors your body produces.

From Slate ● May 25, 2020

We would stand or squat in these buckets, soaping ourselves with the brackish water, rinsing off the dust from the day.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela