Sponging is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPONGING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SPONGE, to wipe with absorbent material, also SPUNGE
• wipe or clean with a wet sponge or cloth
• remove or wipe away (liquid or a mark) with a sponge or cloth
• give a decorative effect to (a painted surface) by applying a different shade of paint with a sponge
• decorate (pottery) using a sponge.
• obtain or accept money or food from other people without doing or intending to do anything in return
• obtain (money or food) from someone without doing anything in return
NOUN:
• a primitive sedentary aquatic invertebrate with a soft porous body that is typically supported by a framework of fibres or calcareous or glassy spicules. Sponges draw in a current of water to extract nutrients and oxygen.
• a piece of a soft, light, porous absorbent substance originally consisting of the fibrous skeleton of an aquatic invertebrate but now usually made of synthetic material, used for washing and cleaning.
• an act of wiping or cleaning with a sponge
• a soft, light, porous substance used as padding or insulating material
• metal in a porous form, typically prepared by reduction without fusion or by electrolysis
• a light cake made by beating eggs with sugar, flour, and usually butter or other fat
• a heavy drinker.
• a barrier contraceptive in the form of a piece of soft, light, porous material impregnated with spermicide and inserted into a woman's vagina.
• a person who lives at someone else's expense.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to wipe with a sponge (a mass of absorbent material)
• present participle of sponge
• a. & n. from Sponge, v.

Words related to SPONGING

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How to use SPONGING in a sentence

• We waited for a minute until the latter melted, McMurtrie filling up the time by carefully sponging the bridge of my nose with some liquid antiseptic.
• The visitor was stripped and given a brisk and thorough rubbing and sponging by Harry and Tad.
• People are your friends from pure friendship and love, not from sponging self-interestedness.
• But he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself began squaring again.
• Taffy, sponging himself in his tub and singing between his gasps, looked up hastily, then flung a big towel about him and ran to the window.
• The sponging over, the old man Pascoe handed her a bandage and, at a sign from her, lifted my shoulders a little while she passed it under my back.
• In one of the corners sat Morrison on the knee of an attendant, who was sponging the blood from his face, whilst another flapped a towel before him.
• The daily sponging bath is to be given by the nurse, and should be rapidly and skilfully done.
• He wants plenty of cold lemonade, cold sponging, and ice to suck when the fever is on him.
• The child’s eyes should be kept clean, and should the fever get high the comfort of the little sufferer may be increased by sponging with tepid water and alcohol.
• Naturally, a shower, or at least a quick sponging with cold water, should follow all such baths.
• The hot bath when used for perspiration purposes should be followed by a quick sponging with cold water or by a cold shower.
• Sponging should be done cautiously lest the foreign body be hidden in secretions or food accumulation, and dislodged.
• A sponge bath taken in a warm room is not injurious and unpleasant odors can be avoided by sponging the parts with a warm antiseptic solution upon changing the cloth.
• With this chance, and this alone still to depend upon, he had probably kept his melancholy chauffeur up all night, sponging and polishing.
• Columns of the enemy charged in such close and rapid succession that the British artillerymen were constantly assailed in the very act of sponging and loading their guns.
• This can be prevented by sponging with hot water, or by applying steaming cloths to the cane.
• In other cases, sponging with tepid soap and water, then with tepid water and drying with a hot towel will be ordered.
• What I mean is, that by simply washing or sponging with water you do not really clean your skin.

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