SPONGE
- to wipe with absorbent material [v SPONGED, SPONGING or SPONGEING, SPONGES]
- marine animal with a porous skeleton
- its absorbent skeleton or an imitation, used for cleaning
- to clean with a sponge
- to wipe with a sponge (a mass of absorbent material) [v SPONGED, SPONGEING, SPONGES, SPONGING]
- to get by imposing on another
- to impose or live on another
- to concede defeat; yield; give up