esponjar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əs.puɲˈʒa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əs.poɲˈʒa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.poɲˈd͡ʒaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

esponjar (first-person singular present esponjo, first-person singular preterite espongí, past participle esponjat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to sponge up, to absorb with a sponge
2. (transitive) to raze
3. (pronominal) to fluff up (to become soft and porous)
4. (pronominal, figurative) to swell, to become proud

From esponja +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /esponˈxaɾ/ [es.põŋˈxaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧pon‧jar

esponjar (first-person singular present esponjo, first-person singular preterite esponjé, past participle esponjado)

1. (transitive) to fluff up, make spongey
2. (intransitive) to become spongey
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 319:

     La presencia de una menstruosa malogra el batido: la leche no cuaja y se vuelve suero, los huevos se convierten en aceite, la masa no esponja, etc.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “esponjar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024