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sponging

ADJECTIVE
freeloading
Synonyms




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There’s a lot of scraping and sponging involved.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2023

I’ve got her stool and her bucket and her towel, and I’m sponging her off on a nightly basis, sending her back into the fray.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2022

But for a while after seeing your video, I was sponging down my milk cartons in bleach.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2020

It was Herder who called Europe’s voracious expansionism worldwide “the grand European sponging enterprise.”

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2018

Aunt Loma arrived to fix our breakfast and then took over the sponging so we could eat, but we all carried our plates to the sickroom.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns




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