What are some opposite words for sponge?
Antonyms for sponge
spʌndʒsponge
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term sponge.
Wiktionary
spongenoun
Synonyms:
blagspongeverb
To take advantage of the kindness of others.
He has been sponging off his friends for a month now.
Synonyms:
sea sponge, poriferan, bath sponge, blagspongenoun
A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
Synonyms:
blag, bath spongespongenoun
A type of light cake; sponge cake.
Synonyms:
sponge cakespongenoun
A type of steamed pudding.
Synonyms:
sponge puddingspongenoun
A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).
Synonyms:
freeloader, sponger
English Synonyms and Antonyms
sponge
To clean is to make clean by removing dirt, impurities, or soil of any kind. Cleanse implies a worse condition to start from, and more to do, than clean. Hercules cleansed the Augean stables. Cleanse is especially applied to purifying processes where liquid is used, as in the flushing of a street, etc. We brush clothing if dusty, sponge it, or sponge it off, if soiled; or sponge off a spot. Furniture, books, etc., are dusted; floors are mopped or scrubbed; metallic utensils are scoured; a room is swept; soiled garments are washed; foul air or water is purified. Cleanse and purify are used extensively in a moral sense; wash in that sense is archaic. Compare AMEND.
Antonyms:
befoul, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, contaminate, corrupt, debase, defile, deprave, pollute, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, vitiateSynonyms:
brush, clean, cleanse, disinfect, dust, lave, mop, purify, rinse, scour, scrub, sweep, wash, wipePreposition:
Cleanse of or from physical or moral defilement; cleanse with an instrument; by an agent; the room was cleansed by the attendants with soap and water.
Princeton's WordNet
spongenoun
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
Synonyms:
leech, parazoan, sponger, poriferan, quick study, parasitequick study, spongenoun
someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
"she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"
Synonyms:
leech, parazoan, sponger, poriferan, quick study, parasiteleech, parasite, sponge, spongernoun
a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
Synonyms:
sponger, parasite, parazoan, hirudinean, leech, bloodsucker, quick study, poriferansponge, poriferan, parazoanverb
primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
Synonyms:
leech, parazoan, sponger, poriferan, quick study, parasitespongeverb
wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
mooch, bum, cadge, grub, spongeverb
ask for and get free; be a parasite
Synonyms:
loaf, shnorr, arse around, cadge, frig around, schnorr, lounge around, arse about, waste one's time, loll around, bum around, scrounge, bum, lounge about, grub, loll, mooch, bum aboutspongeverb
erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
spongeverb
soak up with a sponge
spongeverb
gather sponges, in the ocean
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How to use sponge in a sentence?
We are in an environment of mixed signal, inconsistencies and the markets are being driven by a lack of a positive theme, troubles in European banks and weak oil prices, we've been setting up for squeezing of the sponge. It's time to take some profits from the markets.
I’m not too sure if they are actually called sponge crabs, but we have always called them that, they seem to carve out a piece of sponge which is loose fitting on their backs. We only usually get one every year or two, but this summer we have had five already. I don't know if the increase is down to global warming, but I am now trying to find out how far they have spread.
It’s part of this culture, I think, where everyone’s just looking to get ahead so fast and so furiously that they forget to enjoy the ride, look for inflection points that they can improve their career, be a sponge, find mentors, things like that, we coach them to be patient, and we coach them that they’re winning, and we coach them to be a sponge and look for these inflections points.
It's a unique tissue that's only present in the penis, when you get an erection, blood flows into the corpus cavernosa, and it fills up like a sponge.
Lastly, everyone asks, ‘Why so many sponges? Can’t you just use the same two?’ the answer is no. There’s a difference between a ‘dipped sponge’ and a soaked sponge. The dipped sponge is dry in the center and will just be coated with the mix. The soaked sponge has been sitting in the mix and will work like a dryer sheet.
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