Synonyms for sponge
spʌndʒsponge

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1. spongenoun

   Synonyms:
   blag

2. spongeverb

   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, blag

3. spongenoun

   A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).

   Synonyms:
   blag, bath sponge

4. spongenoun

   A type of light cake; sponge cake.

   Synonyms:
   sponge cake

5. spongenoun

   A type of steamed pudding.

   Synonyms:
   sponge pudding

6. spongenoun

   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

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1. 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.

   Synonyms:
   brush, clean, cleanse, disinfect, dust, lave, mop, purify, rinse, scour, scrub, sweep, wash, wipe

   Antonyms:
   befoul, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, contaminate, corrupt, debase, defile, deprave, pollute, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, vitiate

   Preposition:
   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.

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1. 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, parasite

2. quick 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, parasite

3. leech, 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, poriferan

4. sponge, 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, parasite

5. spongeverb

   wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten

   Synonyms:
   bum, grub, cadge, mooch

6. 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 about

7. spongeverb

   erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard

   Synonyms:
   bum, grub, cadge, mooch

8. spongeverb

   soak up with a sponge

   Synonyms:
   bum, grub, cadge, mooch

9. spongeverb

   gather sponges, in the ocean

   Synonyms:
   bum, grub, cadge, mooch

Matched Categories

1. • Absorbent Material
   • Erase
   • Gather
   • Learner
   • Wipe
   • Wipe Up

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1. spongeverb

   Synonyms:
   wipe (with a sponge), cleanse

2. spongeverb

   Synonyms:
   dampen, wet

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1. spongeverb

   Synonyms:
   imbibe, absorb, expunge, efface, erase, obliterate

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1. List of paraphrases for "sponge":

   sponges, towel, loofah, chameleon

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1. Rajveer Purohit:

   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.

2. Joseph Rickaby:

   A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

3. Andre Bakhos:

   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.

4. Cary Colón:

   As long as the softener is diluted with water and the sponge is fully squeezed it will not stain your clothing.

5. Paul Millsap:

   Hes a sponge, he picks it up. He sees how people are playing him and guarding him and he makes the right play every time. Thats whats great about him he doesnt force anything. Everything is going to be the right play. Hes going to make the right reads. Hes like a quarterback out there.