sponge bath

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   you wash your body with a sponge or washcloth instead of in a bathtub

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Questions about sponge bath

What does sponge bath mean?

sponge bath means "you wash your body with a sponge or washcloth instead of in a bathtub".

Is sponge bath a common word?

sponge bath is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.