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单词 mop up
释义 mop up
transitive verb
1. : to dispose of : clean up
 < have heard much less of Brighton's race gangs since the war, so let us hope that they have been mopped up — S.P.B.Mais >
specifically : to follow in the wake of an attacking military force and clear (an area) of remaining pockets of resistance
 < the bulk of the troops were still needed to guard and mop up the captured territory — Infantry Journal >
 < it was left to Australians to mop up the bypassed Japanese — D.L.Oliver >
2. : to take up or assimilate : garner, absorb
 < urchins are abundant in nearby waters and are … mopped up by the tubful — W.C.Allee >
 < added seventeen swimming and diving gold medals to the 56 they had mopped up in other events — Newsweek >
 < contributes to antiinflation … in that it mops up funds that might otherwise be paid out in higher wages and dividends — W.H.Anderson >
 < sales of assets will serve to mop up surplus credit — W.M.Dacey >
intransitive verb
: to complete a project or transaction : clean up
 < most of the East Cambridge apparatus was mopping up at the two engine house fires — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union >
 < quick-freezers, whose products were not rationed, mopped up on the home front — Harper's >
specifically : to carry out a military cleanup
 < behind it would come truck-borne infantry and mobile guns to mop up and to widen the breach — Tom Wintringham >
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