spongy

spongy (ˈspʌndʒɪ)

—*adj* , -gier, -giest
1.	of or resembling a sponge, esp in texture, porosity, elasticity, or compressibility: spongy bread; spongy bone
2.	of or like a sponge in respect of its capacity to absorb fluid and yield it when compressed

spongily

—*adv*

sponginess

—n

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spongy spong·y (spŭn'jē)
adj.
Resembling a sponge in appearance, elasticity, or porosity.

spong'i·ness n.

Example sentences

But liquor has so liquefied his spongy brain that his personae are beginning to

dissolve from all this overtime dissipation.

They are disseminated primarily by water, buoyed by a spongy shell.

Newt tissue, on the other hand, grows a spongy little cap at the site of

amputation.

There are two types of bone tissue: compact and spongy.

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Matching Quote

"I can love both fair and brown;
Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays;
Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays;
Her whom the country formed, and whom the town;
Her who believes, and her who tries;
Her who still weeps with spongy eyes;
And her who is dry cork, and never cries.
I can love her, and her, and you and you,
I can love any, so she be not true."

-John Donne

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