BLUDGING Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

bludging

verb

present participle of bludge, chiefly Australian & New Zealand

as in sponging

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In the collision of spice, sharpness and seedy crunch, and in the sponging way potatoes soak up butter, the intensity never seems like too much.

— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
While the sponging industry has diminished over the years (largely because most modern-day consumers use artificial versions for dish scrubbing and housecleaning), there’s still a considerable market for the natural ones, especially in Europe.

— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026

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Meanwhile, the palace has been besieged by loutish suitors, led by the scheming Antinous (Robert Pattinson), all of them vying for the queen’s hand in remarriage and mooching off the absent king’s food and wine.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
On top of that, Nico is also, quite obviously, just mooching off/clinging to Mindy because he got cut off by his family.

— Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025

Definition of mooching

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Still, there’s a reason Inside the Actors Studio ran for 22 seasons and the most fervent alt-rap acolytes are constantly begging their idols to empty their hard drives.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 29 July 2026
Online campaigns and Reddit threads pop up regularly begging Planters to revive them.

— Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026

Definition of begging

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Yet Messi still managed to create a sense of late drama with his hooking passes across the face of Spain’s net, conjuring sudden opportunities out of nothing.

— Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
Of course, once can’t think of the extra-heighted headband without conjuring up an image of Leighton Meester as queen bee Blair Waldorf, who had a wardrobe full of them in all kinds of prints and patterns.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 17 July 2026

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Page’s character Sinon is the soldier tasked with informing the Trojans that the Trojan Horse is a gift from the Greeks, imploring them to drag the giant statue into the city with Odysseus, Menelaus (Jon Bernthal) and more soldiers inside.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
Once the players peeled themselves off the grass after the final whistle, Mauricio Pochettino rounded up the team on the field for one more speech, imploring the group to continue believing in the future.

— Tom Bogert, New York Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of imploring

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Oregon State’s players took the campaign a step further, petitioning state regulators for union representation and the right to bargain with their university.

— Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
Last month, California Coastkeeper Alliance and other nonprofit groups tried to expand the clean water protections statewide by petitioning six other regional water boards.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

Definition of petitioning

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