English-Spanish translations for sponge

esponjaAbsorben agua como una esponja y con ello enfrían la atmósfera. They soak up water like a sponge and thereby cool the atmosphere. La pesca de arrastre de fondo causa daños sin precedentes en las comunidades de corales y esponjas de alta mar. Bottom trawling is causing unprecedented damage to the deep-sea coral and sponge communities.
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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A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic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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