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Sponge Down

Definition: Sponge Down

Sponge Down

Verb

1. Clean with a sponge, by rubbing.

2. Wash with a sponge.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Sponge Down

Synonym: sponge off (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Sponge Down

Language Translations for "sponge down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

afsponzen (sponge, sponge over). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

spongi (sponge, sponge over). (various references)

   

German

  

schnell waschen, waschen (bathe, clean, clean down, launder, lave, pan, shampoo, sluice, to bathe, to give a wash, to launder, to lave, to wash, wash, washing), abwischen (brush away, clean, dry, dust off, erase, mop, mop down, sponge, sponge off, sponge up, to wipe, wipe, wipe away, wipe off), abwaschen (clean down, clean out, rub down, swill, to give a wash, wash, wash down, wash off, wash up, wipe out), abtreiben (abort, be driven off course, bring down, float away, float off, procure abortion, to abort). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pulire con una spugna. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ongespay ownday

   

Swedish

  

torka (aridity, dehydrate, drought, dry, dryness, rough-dry, season, wipe), avtorkning (wipe). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

süngerle suyunu alma, süngerle silmek (sponge), süngerle kurulama, ıslak süngerle temizlemek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sponge Down

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-n-n-o-o-p-s-w"

-3 letters: godowns, nonegos, noodges, snooped, sponged, spooned, swooned, swooped, woopsed.

-4 letters: endows, godown, godson, goosed, gowned, nodose, nonego, noodge, noosed, odeons, pengos, ponged, snowed, sponge, wodges, wonned, wooden.

-5 letters: doges, dongs, donne, dopes, downs, dowse, endow, enows, goods, goons, goops, goose, gowds, gowns, neons, nodes, nones, noons, noose, nosed, odeon, opens, owned, owsen, pends.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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