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SPONGING

Traducere în limba română

sponging substantiv

1. spălare, curăţare etc. cu buretele.

2. cules de bureţi (în apă).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

The two men were hurried to their corners, one second sponging them down and the other flapping a towel in front of their face; whilst they, with arms hanging down and legs extended, tried to draw all the air they could into their lungs in the brief space allowed them.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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