Definitions For Sponge

noun

  • Primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
  • A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
  • Someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
  • 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
  • A piece of light natural or artificial material that becomes soft when it is wet, is able to take in and hold liquid, and is used for washing or cleaning
  • A type of sea animal from which natural sponges are made
  • Someone who gets something from someone else without doing or paying anything in return

verb

  • Gather sponges, in the ocean
  • Wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
  • Soak up with a sponge
  • Erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
  • Ask for and get free; be a parasite
  • To clean or wipe (something) with a sponge
  • To put (paint) on a surface with a sponge
  • To get money, food, etc., from (someone) without doing or paying anything in return

Is Sponges a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
13

The word Sponge is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Sponge in a Sentence

  • Finally told the sponge to move out of their house and to get a job
  • She sponged up the spilt milk.
  • He sponged off his face.
  • She sponged the dirt off her shirt.

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