Synonyms of the word

sponge

• n. (countable) Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton…
• n. (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often…
• n. (uncountable) A porous material such as sponges consist of.
• n. (informal) A heavy drinker.
• n. (countable, uncountable) A type of light cake; sponge cake.
• n. (countable, uncountable, Britain) A type of steamed pudding.
• n. (slang) A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak…
• n. (countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
• n. Any spongelike substance.
• n. A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered…
• n. The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
• v. (transitive) To get by imposition; to scrounge.
• v. (transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
• v. To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
• v. To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
• v. To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
• v. (intransitive) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.

absorbent

• adj. Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.
• n. Anything which absorbs.
• n. (physiology, pluralized, now rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as…
• n. (medicine) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia,…
• n. (chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.

assimilator

• n. A person or thing which assimilates.
• n. In algae, a filament of cells involved with photosynthesis, usually full of chloroplasts.

bum

• n. The buttocks.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
• n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
• v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
• interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
• n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
• v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
• adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
• adj. Unfair.
• adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
• adj. Unpleasant.
• v. To depress; to make unhappy.
• n. (dated) A humming noise.
• v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
• n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.

cadge

• n. (falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
• v. (Geordie) To beg.
• v. (US, Britain, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might…
• v. To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.

collect

• v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
• v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
• v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
• v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
• v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
• v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
• v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
• adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
• adv. With payment due from the recipient.
• n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

efface

• v. (transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
• v. (transitive) To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
• v. (reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
• v. (medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.

erase

• v. (transitive) to remove markings or information.
• v. (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage)…
• v. (transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play.
• v. (intransitive) To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).
• v. (transitive) To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.

follower

• n. (literally) One who follows, comes after another.
• n. Something that comes after another thing.
• n. One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer.
• n. One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc.
• n. An imitator, who follows another's example.
• n. A pursuer.
• n. A person or an account holding entity who's following someone or something (such as a company, a government…
• n. A machine part receiving motion from another.
• n. A man courting a maidservant.
• n. Young cattle.
• n. A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly.
• n. (Australian rules football) Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually…
• n. (colloquial, dated) A debt collector.

garner

• n. A granary; a store of grain.
• n. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
• v. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
• v. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
• v. (often figuratively) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to…
• v. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

gather

• v. To collect; normally separate things.
• v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
• v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
• v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
• v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
• v. To gain; to win.
• n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
• n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
• n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
• n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

grub

• n. (countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Food.
• n. (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
• v. To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
• v. To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
• v. (slang) To supply with food.

invertebrate

• n. An animal without vertebrae, i.e. backbone.
• n. (informal) A spineless person; a coward.
• adj. Lacking a backbone.

learner

• n. One who is learning.

leech

• n. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
• n. A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
• n. (medicine, dated) A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
• v. (transitive) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
• v. (transitive) To drain (resources) without giving back.
• n. (archaic) A physician.
• n. (paganism, Heathenry) A healer.
• v. (archaic, rare) To treat, cure or heal.
• n. (nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail.
• n. (nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.

mooch

• v. (Britain) To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
• v. To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
• v. (Britain) To steal or filch.
• n. One who mooches; a moocher.

mop

• n. An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or…
• n. (humorous) A dense head of hair.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A fair where servants are hired.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
• n. A made-up face; a grimace.
• v. (transitive) To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
• v. (intransitive) To make a wry expression with the mouth.

obtain

• v. (transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.
• v. (intransitive) To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.

parasite

• n. (pejorative) A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back.
• n. (biology) An organism that lives on or in another organism, deriving benefit from living on or in that…
• n. (literary, poetic) A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc.

parazoan

• n. (zoology) Any sponge (of the subkingdom Parazoa).

poriferan

• n. (zoology) Any sponge of the phylum Porifera.

scholar

• n. A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
• n. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
• n. A learned person; a bookman.

sponger

• n. One who uses a sponge.
• n. A parasitic hanger-on.
• n. One employed in gathering sponges from the sea.

wipe

• v. (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance…
• v. (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
• v. (obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
• v. (transitive, computing) To erase.
• v. (transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction…
• v. (figuratively) To change one's demeanour or facial expression.
• n. The act of wiping something.
• n. A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
• n. A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to…
• n. The lapwing.