English-Italian translations for sponge

spugnaIn tale contesto può essere prevista la pesca sperimentale della spugna. In this context, experimental sponge fishing can be envisaged. Verrebbe voglia di gettare la spugna, tornare a casa dicendo: è stato bello, ma l'impresa europea era troppo ardua rispetto alle forze e alle convinzioni. We might want to throw in the sponge and go home, saying the European project was a fine thing, but there were forces and beliefs too strong for it to overcome.

Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum ''Porifera'', that have a porous skeleton often of silica
A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic
A porous material such as sponges consist of
A type of light cake
A type of steamed pudding
A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge
A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a w:Contraceptive sponge|contraceptive sponge
A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff
A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation
To take advantage of the kindness of others
To get by imposition; to scrounge
To deprive of something by imposition
To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge
To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of
To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven

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