sponge

1. (intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.Examples: "The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that spunges upon other Peoples Trenchers."; "You can’t go on spunging upon the women."; "He has been sponging off his friends for a month now."intransitiveslang

2. (transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.Examples: "“[…] 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."; "July 17 1735, Jonathan Swift, letter to Lord Ornery I am an utter stranger to the persons and places, except when half a score come to sponge on me every Sunday evening"; "to sponge a breakfast"Synonyms: blagtransitive

3. (transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.Examples: "How came such multitudes of our nation […] to be sponged of their plate and their money?"transitive

4. (intransitive, baking) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.intransitive

5. (marine biology, of dolphins) To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.Examples: "Why do dolphins sponge instead of foraging in a more "normal" way?"; "Sponging is worth thinking about in some detail because it illustrates many of the challenges and sources of controversy in studying social learning and culture in wild cetaceans."; "Moreover, the females that do it seem to "sponge" relentlessly throughout the day, hunting more than other females and more than male spongers too."