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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

(intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others. / (transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.

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sponge

verb

She sponges off her parents.

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意味（1）

(intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.

The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that spunges upon other Peoples Trenchers.

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意味（2）

(transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.

“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

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意味（3）

(transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.

How came such multitudes of our nation […] to be sponged of their plate and their money?

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意味（4）

To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.

意味（5）

To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.

意味（6）

To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.

Lett the eyes which have looked on Idols, sponge out their unlawfull acts

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意味（7）

(intransitive, baking) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.

意味（8）

(marine biology, of dolphins) To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.

Why do dolphins sponge instead of foraging in a more "normal" way?

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