Swamp vs Sponge - What's the difference?
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A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.
To drench or fill with water.
To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
* 2006 ,
(figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
* J. R. Green
* W. Hamilton
(countable) Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera , that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
(countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=5 (uncountable) A porous material such as sponges consist of.
(informal) A heavy drinker.
(countable, uncountable) A type of light cake; sponge cake.
(countable, uncountable, British) A type of steamed pudding.
(slang) 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).
(countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a .
Any spongelike substance.
# Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
# Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
# Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
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.
The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.
(slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
* L'Estrange
To get by imposition; to scrounge.
* , chapter=13
, title= To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
* South
To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
To suck in, or imbibe, like 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.
As nouns the difference between swamp and sponge
is that swamp is a piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes while sponge is (countable) any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum porifera , that have a porous skeleton often of silica.As verbs the difference between swamp and sponge
is that swamp is to drench or fill with water while sponge is (slang) to take advantage of the kindness of others.swamp
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia swamp) (en noun)Derived terms
* swamp gum * swampland * swamp wallaby * swampySee also
* bog * marsh * moorVerb
(en verb)- The boat was swamped in the storm.
- I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.
New York Times,
- Mr. Spitzer’s defeat of his Democratic opponent ... ended a primary season in which Hillary Rodham Clinton swamped an antiwar challenger for renomination to the Senate.
- The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.
- Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory
sponge
English
("sponge" on Wikipedia)Noun
citation, passage=She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge , which she placed on a chair.}}
Synonyms
* (marine invertebrate) sea sponge, bath sponge, poriferan, porifer * (piece of porous material used for washing) bath sponge * (light cake) sponge cake * (type of steamed pudding) sponge pudding * (person) freeloader, spongerDerived terms
* breadcrumb sponge * demosponge * sea sponge * spongey * sponge bath * sponge cakeSee also
* foamVerb
(spong)- The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that sponges upon other people's trenchers.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- (Jonathan Swift)
- How came such multitudes of our nation to be sponged of their plate and their money?
- (Hooker)
