Sponge synonyms
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Part of speech:
To subject to light rubbing or friction, as with a cloth or paper, in order to clean or dry.
To cover or impregnate with liquid.
To be removed by washing
To leech is defined as to get a file on a file sharing site that is being hosted by another user without allowing your file to be copied at the same time.
sponge off
*To use another's money
To live off the generosity or hospitality of others
To manage to get or find by hunting around
To get or try to get something free of charge; sponge:
Bum is slang for borrowing without planning to return.
clean (related)
(Informal) Entirely; wholly:
mop (related)
To use a mop to wash or dry surfaces:
borrow (related)
To borrow something.
A person who is intrusively or overly dependent upon another; a parasite.
A person who spends time in the company of another person or of a group out of admiration or for personal gain.
(Biol.) A plant or animal that lives on or in an organism of another species from which it derives sustenance or protection without benefit to, and usually with harmful effects on, the host
(Informal) A person who habitually imposes on others for free food, lodging, etc.; sponger
A drunkard.
One who is habitually drunk.
A drunken person, esp. a drunkard
(Slang, former) Alcoholic liquor
The act or process of soaking:
Something kept or steeped in pickle; especially, the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
dependence (related)
An irresistible physical or psychological need, especially for a chemical substance.
parazoan
Any of the subkingdom (Parazoa) of animals, consisting only of the phylum of sponges, having two tissue layers only and lacking a nervous system and true digestive cavity
(Informal) A person who, though able to work, depends on others for food, money, etc.
1888, Frances Aymar Mathews, His Way and Her Will, p81
Find another word for sponge. In this page you can discover 36 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sponge, like: wipe, wet, wash, leech, sponge off, freeload, scrounge, mooch, bum, clean and mop.