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    spongelike
    [spongelike]
    definition
    1. adjective form of sponge
    sponge
    [spənj]
    noun
    sponge (noun) · sponges (plural noun) · sponge cake (noun) · sponge cakes (plural noun)
    1. a primitive sedentary aquatic invertebrate with a soft porous body that is typically supported by a framework of fibers or calcareous or glassy spicules. Sponges draw in a current of water to extract nutrients and oxygen.
    2. a piece of a soft, light, porous substance originally consisting of the fibrous skeleton of an invertebrate but now usually made of synthetic material. Sponges absorb liquid and are used for washing and cleaning.
      • an act of wiping or cleaning with a sponge:
        "they gave him a quick sponge down"
      • sponge used as padding or insulating material:
        "the headguard is padded with sponge"
      • a piece of sponge impregnated with spermicide and inserted into a woman's vagina as a form of barrier contraceptive.
      • metal in a porous form, typically prepared by reduction without fusion or by electrolysis:
        "platinum sponge"
    3. BRITISH ENGLISH
      short for sponge cake.
      "a chocolate sponge" · "the gateau is made with moist sponge"
      • a steamed or baked pudding of fat, flour, and eggs.
    4. informal
      derogatory
      a person who lives at someone else's expense.
    5. informal
      a heavy drinker.
    verb
    sponge (verb) · sponges (third person present) · sponged (past tense) · sponged (past participle) · sponging (present participle)
    1. wipe, rub, or clean with a wet sponge or cloth:
      "she sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever"
      • remove or wipe away (liquid or a mark) with a wet sponge or cloth:
        "I'll go and sponge this orange juice off my dress"
      • give a decorative mottled or textured effect to (a painted wall or surface) by applying a different shade of paint with a sponge:
        "she repainted the walls white, then sponged them in turquoise, green, and lilac"
    2. informal
      obtain or accept money or food from other people without doing or intending to do anything in return:
      "they found they could earn a perfectly good living by sponging off others"
      • obtain (something) without doing anything in return for it:
        "he edged closer, clearly intending to sponge money from her"
    Origin
    Old English sponge (in sponge), via Latin from Greek spongia, later form of spongos, reinforced in Middle English by Old French esponge.
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    noun
    1. a person who lives at someone else's expense.
      parasite
      hanger-on
      leech
      scrounger
      passenger
      drone
      beggar
    2. a heavy drinker.
      drinker
      alcoholic
      drunk
      drunkard
      dipsomaniac
      inebriate
      sot
      toper
      tosspot
      serious drinker
      hard drinker
      problem drinker
      Opposite:
      teetotaler
    verb
    1. wipe, rub, or clean with a wet sponge or cloth:
      wash
      clean
      wipe
      swab
      mop
      rinse
      sluice
      swill
    2. obtain or accept money or food from other people without doing or intending to do anything in return:
      live off
      scrounge off/from
      be a parasite on
      impose on
      beg from
      borrow from
      be dependent on
      bludge on
       

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      What does a sponge look like?
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    3. Soft, porous, and easily squashed
      spongelike - easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread"

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      : to absorb, soak up, or imbibe like a sponge 2 : to get something from or live on another by imposing on hospitality or good nature sponged off of her sister 3 : to dive or dredge for sponges

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      Any of numerous aquatic, chiefly marine filter-feeding invertebrate animals of the phylum Porifera, characteristically having a porous skeleton composed of fibrous material or siliceous or calcareous spicules and often forming colonies attached to an underwater surface.

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