sponge
/spʌnd͡ʒ/ verbo C2En español: cafichear, gorronear, gallofear, comer la sopa boba
- To take advantage of the kindness of others. · He has been sponging off his friends for a month now.
- To get by imposition; to scrounge. · to sponge a breakfast
- To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
- To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
- To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
- To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
- To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
- To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.
He/she/it sponges · Pasado sponged · Participio pasado sponged · Forma en -ing sponging
Formas del verbo
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- Participio pasado
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- Forma en -ing
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Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
Ali had, indeed, given proof of this; for, approaching the animals, who had been got upon their legs with considerable difficulty, he rubbed their foreheads and nostrils with a sponge soaked in aromatic vinegar, and wiped off the sweat and foam that covered their mouths.
When her dishes were washed and her bread sponge set and her hens fed Marilla remembered that she had noticed a small rent in her best black lace shawl when she had taken it off on Monday afternoon on returning from the Ladies’ Aid.
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