Definitions for sponges

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sponges sponge

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IPA: /spʌndʒ/

Sponges is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in sponges (egnopss).

Definitions for sponges

noun

1. any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
2. the light, yielding, porous, fibrous skeleton or framework of certain animals or colonies of this group, especially of the genera Spongia and Hippospongia, from which the living matter has been removed, characterized by readily absorbing water and becoming soft when wet while retaining toughness: used in bathing, in wiping or cleaning surfaces, etc.
3. any of various other similar substances, often porous rubber or cellulose, used for washing or cleaning.
4. sponge bath.
5. a person or thing that absorbs something freely:
6. a person who persistently borrows from or lives at the expense of others; sponger; parasite.
7. Informal. a drunkard.
8. Metallurgy. a porous mass of metallic particles, as of platinum, obtained by the reduction of an oxide or purified compound at a temperature below the melting point.
9. Surgery. a sterile surgical dressing of absorbent material, usually cotton gauze, for wiping or absorbing pus, blood, or other fluids during a surgical operation.
10. Cookery. dough raised with yeast, especially before kneading, as for bread. a light, sweet pudding of a porous texture, made with gelatin, eggs, fruit juice or other flavoring material, etc.
11. a disposable piece of polyurethane foam impregnated with a spermicide for insertion into the vagina as a contraceptive.

Idioms

1. throw in the sponge, Informal. to concede defeat; yield; give up:

verb (used with object)

1. to wipe or rub with or as with a wet sponge, as to moisten or clean.
2. to remove with or as with a wet sponge (usually followed by off, away, etc.).
3. to wipe out or efface with or as with a sponge (often followed by out).
4. to take up or absorb with or as with a sponge (often followed by up):
5. to borrow, use, or obtain by imposing on another's good nature, friendship, hospitality, or the like:
6. Ceramics. to decorate (a ceramic object) by dabbing at it with a sponge soaked with color.

verb (used without object)

1. to take in or soak up liquid by absorption.
2. to gather sponges.
3. to live at the expense of others (often followed by on or off):

Origin of sponges

before 1000; (noun) Middle English, Old English Latin spongia, spongea Greek spongiā́; (v.) Middle English spongen to clean with a sponge, derivative of the noun

Examples for sponges

Cook at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes until golden brown and the sponge springs back when lightly pressed.

I hated him for this, as though the sponge had been Rachel's heart.

But that first case died because a sponge had been left in the operating field.

Add it gradually, stirring your flour into the sponge at the same time.

When and how is sponge cake taken from the pan in which it is baked?

Most of the great players switched to sponge—but year after year, sponge leapfrogged from one technology to another.

Take a basin of water and a sponge, Fred, and wash the dust off.

The sponge players who followed Satoh are fine athletes, but the games they play have been generally unwatchable.

Santa snacks on rice pudding in Denmark, sponge cake in Chile, Kulkuls in India, and mince pies in the U.K.

I have no idea how they made it; it was coconut milk poofed into a sponge.