sponge in Hindi हिन्दी
sponge in Kashmiri कॉशुर
sponge in Malayalam മലയാളം
sponge in Sindhi سنڌي
sponge in Tamil தமிழ்
sponge in Telugu తెలుగు
sponge in English
- sponge⇄adj. spongeable.
- sponge⇄adj. spongelike.
- sponge⇄expr. throw in (or up) the sponge, to abandon a contest or struggle; admit defeat; give up (from the practice of a boxer's seconds' tossing a sponge into the ring in acknowledgment of defeat).
Ex. The tax-reform program was so badly battered that t - sponge⇄noun 1. any one of a group of water animals having a tough, elastic skeleton or framework of interlaced fibers; poriferan. Sponges are free-swimming as larvae but soon become attached, as to stones or plants where they exist in large, complex colonies, u
- sponge⇄sponge, noun, verb, sponged,sponging.
- sponge⇄v.i. 1. to absorb or take up, as a sponge does.
2. to gather sponges.
3. (Informal, Figurative.) to live or profit at the expense of another in a mean way.
Ex. That lazy man won't work, but sponges on his family. - sponge⇄v.t. 1. to wipe or rub with a wet sponge; make clean or damp in this way.
Ex. [She] sponged herself, dressed, and had a quiet breakfast (New Yorker).
2. to remove or wipe (away or off) with a sponge.
Ex. Sponge the mud spots off the ca