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   A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).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

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

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

   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.

Matched Categories

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

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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

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1. spongeverb

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

How to use sponge in a sentence?

1. Laurent Simons:

   They told us Laurent Simons is like a sponge.

2. Paul Dawson:

   Raw meat carries bacteria and then if you throw it on the cutting board and use a towel or sponge to dry that off, it could pick that up, cutting boards and table tops used for food prep are of concern and need to be cleaned regularly and dried.

3. 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.

4. Ian Jepson:

   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.

5. Patrick Guerra:

   Cotton traps moisture like a sponge. But silk is breathable. Its thinner than cotton and dries really fast, the ongoing hypothesis is that coronavirus is transmitted through respiratory droplets.

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