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

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 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

He enumerates some pleasures of life on the outside — sleeping on comfortable sheets, soaping up a loofah sponge in the shower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2020

A month earlier, before Molly had come forward with her grievance, Hal had been soaping her empty lunch containers in the newsroom kitchenette when she’d been spotted by Petra, the new V.P. of programming.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018

I thought of the gang dumping ashcans on Third Avenue and soaping up the windows.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George