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Sponge

noun

(Formerly written also spunge)

1.

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.

2.

Someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily. Synonym: quick study.

3.

A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage. Synonyms: leech, parasite, sponger.

4.

Primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies. Synonyms: parazoan, poriferan.

verb

(past & past part. sponged; pres. part. sponging)

1.

Wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten.

2.

Ask for and get free; be a parasite. Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, mooch.

3.

Erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard.

4.

Soak up with a sponge.

5.

Gather sponges, in the ocean.

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"Sponge" Quotes from Famous Books

... my lad, let us sponge out the past, and start off afresh in pursuit of Fantomas!... I tell you the struggle ...

— Messengers of Evil - Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre

... tightly round a stone by means of a shoelace, thundered through the window of the room where Mabel and her aunt, in the ardour of reunion, were enjoying a supper of unusual charm stewed plums, cream, sponge-cakes, custard in cups, and ...

— The Enchanted Castle • E. Nesbit

... digits until one's chubby fingers, tightly gripping the pencil, ached, and then to be expected to take a sponge and wash ...

— Emmy Lou - Her Book and Heart • George Madden Martin

... upon the bed and dragged it to the window to husband the light. Two doctors, hastily summoned from a neighboring hospital, worked like heroes in their shirt sleeves—a nurse in a gray dress stood behind them holding sponge and bandages. At the first glance, the untrained onlooker would have said that Sergius Zamoyski was certainly dead. The intense pallor of his face, the set eyes, the stiffened limbs, spoke of the rigor mortis and the finality of tragedy. None the less, the surgeons ...

— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton

... one but me saw the look of love she gave him as she took sponge and lint from his hand, pressing it as she did so, and then her pale face lit up with a smile as she met his eyes; the next moment she was kneeling by the wounded trooper, and in a quiet firm way helping Mrs ...

— Begumbagh - A Tale of the Indian Mutiny • George Manville Fenn

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