1. • 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
   • noun - someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
   • noun - a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
   • noun - primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework
   • verb - wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
   • verb - ask for and get free
   • verb - erase with a sponge
   • verb - soak up with a sponge
   • verb - gather sponges, in the ocean
2. • Any of numerous aquatic, chiefly marine invertebrate animals of the phylum Porifera, characteristically having a porous skeleton composed of fibrous material or siliceous or calcareous spicules and often forming irregularly shaped colonies attached to an underwater surface.
   • The light, fibrous, flexible, absorbent skeleton of certain of these organisms, used for bathing, cleaning, and other purposes.
   • Porous plastics, rubber, cellulose, or other material, similar in absorbency to this skeleton and used for the same purposes.
   • A gauze pad used to absorb blood and other fluids, as in surgery or the dressing of a wound.
   • A small absorbent contraceptive pad that contains a spermicide and is placed against the cervix of the uterus before sexual intercourse.
   • Dough that has been or is being leavened.
   • A light cake, such as sponge cake.
   • A sponge bath.
   • One who habitually depends on others for one’s own maintenance.
   • A glutton.
   • A drunkard.
   • To moisten, wipe, or clean with or as if with a sponge: sponge off the table.
   • To wipe out; erase.
   • To absorb with or as if with a sponge: sponge up the mess.
   • To obtain free: sponge a meal.
   • To fish for sponges.
   • To live by relying on the generosity of others: sponged off her parents.
3. • v - to wipe with a sponge (a mass of absorbent material)

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