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sponge English

Meaning sponge meaning

What does sponge mean?
Definitions in simple English

sponge Noun

— A sponge is a soft thing with many holes that can keep much water in it. (One that grows in water, or one that is made by people and used for washing things.) Use the sponge to clean up the water.

sponge Verb

— Sponge means to take advantage of someone's kindness

sponge

— verb wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten — noun a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used — noun primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies — verb soak up with a sponge — verb gather sponges, in the ocean — verb erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard — noun someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge — noun (= leech) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage — verb (= mooch) ask for and get free; be a parasite

Synonyms sponge synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as sponge?

sponge English » English

parasite sponger poriferan cadge parazoan leech foam rubber spongia quick study mop mooch loofah grub freeloader coral bum brush wipe off tool toady sycophant swell up swab down swab sponge-cake soaker scrubber scrounger scrounge remove rag porous material porosint obliterate mop up loofa hanger-on freeload foamed materials foam material efface eadge dust crave clean cellular material bread black morel beg

Topics sponge topics

What do people use sponge to talk about?
Universe, creation Water

Wet
Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Small animals

  • What words refer to sponges? (phylum Porifera)?
    sponge
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Visit
Daily life Cleaning

Wash dishes
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with clay

Conjugation sponge conjugation

How do you conjugate sponge?

sponge · verb

Examples sponge examples

How do I use sponge in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A sponge absorbs water.
A sponge absorbs liquids.
Many people think that sponge cake is difficult to bake, but if you use enough eggs, nothing can really go wrong.
Do you use a sponge when you take a bath?
Soak this sponge in water.
The sponge soaks up water.
Tom squeezed the sponge.
I'm going to need a sponge.

Movie subtitles

As an actor I've often used sponge rubber in putting on a character make-up.
So, gentlemen, when I found this piece of sponge rubber.
Sponge rubber?
Try one of those sponge cakes.
The Lamb is getting him off of Capt. Phil's old sponge boat.
What in tarnation can a man do with a sponge?
He's chewing on that sponge something awful.
I was aboard that sponge boat tonight. when Widgeon brought your men on that crimping job.
Sponge, please.
Sponge?
Sponge.
And now I know what it is: a sponge.
With what, a sponge?
Help me to sponge away the writing on the stone if I repent.
Um, hand me that sponge there, will you?
Alice, I never thought you'd be the First to throw up the sponge.
A wet sponge..
We put a wet sponge on his podium chair.Now, imagine this. the whole morning he sat there in his wet pants.
You have to put a sponge under the tap.
Shove the vinegar sponge in your mouth and laughing.
No! I turned into a sponge waiting for you.
It's like a sponge!
I'm making a sponge cake.
A sponge for cleaning up!
The germ-filled sponge goes into the mouth.
Did you sponge this off Caryl?
Would you please sponge me off?
They're usually made of sponge cake.
It's like a plastic sponge.
No positive proof, but I'm convinced that the giant sucks up energy like a sponge, feeds on it, is a walking storehouse of energy!
Son, do you want sponge cakes?
A real sponge!
More men have promised to love, honor and obey a good set of sponge rubber than they'll ever know.
You got a sponge and soap?
No, and 1000 times no. This, my young friend, is a sponge.
Why? Rather, an ass sponge.

News and current affairs

Second, the minority who do choose Germany, France, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, or Hungary are not enemies who have come to destroy us or even to sponge off of European taxpayers.
The following year, tests revealed that the brain had been eroded by a myriad of small vacuoles, producing the sponge-like appearance that inspired the disease's scientific name: bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

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