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spongy

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spong·y  (spnj)
adj. spong·i·er, spong·i·est
Resembling a sponge in elasticity, absorbency, or porousness.
spongi·ness n.
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Adj.1.spongy - easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread"
spongelike, squishy, squashy
soft - yielding readily to pressure or weight
2.spongy - like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed
spongelike
absorbent, absorptive - having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.); "as absorbent as a sponge"
spongy
adjective porous, light, absorbent, springy, cushioned, elastic, cushiony
Translations
spongy [ˈspʌndʒɪ] adj → esponjoso
spongy [ˈspʌndʒɪ] adj → spongieux/euse
spongy [ˈspʌndʒɪ] sponge adj → schwammig
spongy [ˈspʌndʒɪ] adj → spugnoso/a


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Where ye are, there must always be dregs at hand, and much that is spongy, hollow, and compressed: it wanteth to have freedom.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
A little beyond the ruins about the smashed handling-machine I came upon the red weed again, and found the Regent's Canal, a spongy mass of dark-red vegetation.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
Then he went back to the carcass of the elephant, which had fallen only about a hundred feet from the edge of the forest; he next proceeded adroitly to cut off the trunk, which might have been two feet in diameter at the base; of this he selected the most delicate portion, and then took with it one of the animal's spongy feet.
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