Definition of Sponge up

1. Verb. Absorb as if with a sponge. "Sponge up the spilled milk on the counter"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sponge Up

sponge biopsy
sponge cake
sponge cakes
sponge cloth
sponge down
sponge genus
sponge gourd
sponge mop
sponge morel
sponge mushroom
sponge off
sponge on
sponge out
sponge roll
sponge tent
sponge up (current term)
spongecake
spongecakes
sponged
spongefly
spongeless
spongelet
spongelets
spongelike
spongeous
sponger
spongers
sponges
spongeware
spongewares

Literary usage of Sponge up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Monograph of the British Spongiadæ by James Scott Bowerbank (1866)
"... and that the sponge, at the time that life was arrested, was slowly winning its way into them. In the progression of the sponge up one ..."

2. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"... Sponge " up a splendid richly-carved oak staircase, of such gradual and easy rise that an invalid might almost have been drawn up it in a garden-chair. ..."

3. American Observer Medical Monthly (1876)
"... passed the wire through the sponge, hooked the wire over the cord, and slipped the sponge up over the cord. As the cord was still up in the vagina, ..."

4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1892)
"A cork is like a dry sponge, and when we squeeze a sponge up in our hands we are simply doubling up the cell walls, not compressing the substance of the ..."

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