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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
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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