sponge

sponge is a 6-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 25 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.
2. noun. The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiae (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies.
3. noun. One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.
4. noun. Any spongelike substance.
5. noun. Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
6. noun. Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
7. noun. Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
8. noun. A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
9. noun. The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.
10. transitive verb. To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.
11. transitive verb. To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
12. transitive verb. Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.
13. transitive verb. Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast.
14. intransitive verb. To suck in, or imbile, as a sponge.
15. intransitive verb. Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor.
16. intransitive verb. To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven.
17. noun. primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

    Synonyms: parazoan, poriferan

18. noun. a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

    Synonyms: leech, parasite, sponger

19. noun. someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily

    "she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"

20. noun. 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
21. verb. gather sponges, in the ocean
22. verb. wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
23. verb. soak up with a sponge
24. verb. erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
25. verb. ask for and get free; be a parasite

    Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, mooch

Synonyms

parazoan, poriferan, leech, parasite, sponger, bum, cadge, grub, mooch

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sponge:

pengos

Common word forms

sponged, sponger, sponges, sponging, spongeful, spongeing, spongeous, spongeless

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