Crossword-Solution: SPONGY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spongy | a. | Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones. |
| Spongy | a. | Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. |
| Spongy | a. | Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “SPONGY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like angel food cake | 1 answer |
| like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed | 1 answer |
| Soft and elastic. | 1 answer |
| Soft and bouncy | 1 answer |
| Soft and absorbent | 1 answer |
| Loofah-like | 1 answer |
| Like sodden ground | 1 answer |
| Like mushroom heads | 1 answer |
| Like moss, to the touch | 1 answer |
| Like marsh ground | 1 answer |
| Like foam rubber | 1 answer |
| Like brakes you should get looked at, like, now | 1 answer |
| Like angel-food cake | 1 answer |
| Like a loofah | 1 answer |
| Like a bed of moss | 1 answer |
| Easily squished | 1 answer |
| Easily squashed | 1 answer |
| squelchy | 4 answers |
| squishy | 6 answers |
| Porous | 8 answers |
| Absorbent | 11 answers |
| ANGEL ___ CAKE | 11 answers |
| ANGEL FOOD ___ | 11 answers |
| pulpy | 13 answers |
| Malleable | 29 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPONGY (5)
Though I knew of the cheat, it was not till the spongy foot of my camel had almost trodden in the seeming waters that I could undeceive my eyes, for the shore-line was quite true and natural.
All that we know of it is through what we entitle our five senses, which, when provoked to action, will cause a chemical change in a few ounces of spongy matter packed in our skulls.
Another way of starting fire was for several of the boys to sit down in a circle and rub two pieces of dry, spongy wood together, one after another, until the wood took fire.
Dipping over banks in the inlets of the creeks, the fortunate find the rosy apples of the miniature manzanita, barely, but always quite sufficiently, borne above the spongy sod.
And so his lip quivered as he sang:-- “Petit Rocher de la Haute Montagne, Je vien finir ici cette campagne! Ah! doux échos, entendez mes soupirs; En languissant je vais bientôt mouir!” We had need of gayety after that, and so Bill Cowan sang “Billy of the Wild Wood,” and Terence McCann wailed an Irish jig, stamping the water out of the spongy ground amidst storms of mirth.
Quotes with SPONGY (3)
I wonder where he lies. Wedged under a rock, with a thousand small mouths already sucking on his spongy flesh. Or floating still, on and down, on and down, to wider, calmer reaches of the river. I see them gathering: the drowned, the shot. Their hands float out to touch each other, fingertip to fingertip. In a day, two days, they will glide on, a funeral flotilla, past the unfinished white dome rising out of its scaffolds on a muddy hill in Washington. Will the citizens recog…
Like a sponge, we absorb, not liquid, but energy. Each morning we wake up as a fresh, dry sponge, ready to take in the world around us. Throughout the day, we interact with people, various energies, and a range of vibration. Each time, we absorb energy — either a small amount or a great deal — depending on whether the contact is direct or residual. And when we are filled to the point that we can absorb no more, we sometimes feel like we might explode. We know this bursting po…
Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1966–2023).