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Sponged

Sponge \Sponge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sponged (sp[u^]njd); p. pr. & vb. n. Sponging (sp[u^]n"j[i^]ng).]

  1. To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.

  2. To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
    --Hooker.

  3. Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition. ``How came such multitudes of our nation . . . to be sponged of their plate and their money?''
    --South.

  4. Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast.
    --Swift.

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sponged

vb. (en-past of: sponge)

Usage examples of "sponged".

Whenever guns are to be struck below, or prepared for transportation, the gunner will see that the bores are washed with fresh water, carefully sponged, thoroughly dried, and coated with melted tallow, and a wad dipped in the same material inserted, and connected with a tompion by a lanyard.

If the attacks occur at night, the body should be sponged before going to bed with tepid water, to which should be added sufficient tincture or infusion of capsicum, or red-pepper, to render it stimulating to the skin.

With the same good fighting man he served at the Nile, where the men of his command sponged and rammed and trained until, when the last tricolour had come down, they hove up the sheet anchor and fell dead asleep upon the top of each other under the capstan bars.

We stopped at the Greyhound, at Croydon, where the two good little mares were sponged and petted and fed, after which, at an easier pace, we made our way through Norbury and Streatham.

Madame and the nurse wrung rags in a basin of grimy water, sponged his fouled and tear-streaked face.

He ran water from the cistern in the yard and sponged off in the kitchen, the silence of the town sawing at his nerves.

I held your hand and sponged your brow and wiped your ass while you sweated the stuff out of your system the last time.

Guessing that his muscles were aching from lying in one position for so long, Rachel helped him to roll onto his right side, then took advantage of the new position and sponged his back with cold water.