absorb
/æbˈsɔɹb/ verb B1- To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
- To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
- To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in. · The drops of water slowly absorbed into the dry sponge.
- To take in energy and convert it. · Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass.
- in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
- in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
- taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
- To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
Plural absorb · He/she/it absorbs · Past absorbed · Past participle absorbed · -ing form absorbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- absorb
- He/she/it
- absorbs
- Past
- absorbed
- Past participle
- absorbed
- -ing form
- absorbing
From the library
My practice is never very absorbing.”
The old father and Mercédès remained for some time apart, each absorbed in grief; but at length the two poor victims of the same blow raised their eyes, and with a simultaneous burst of feeling rushed into each other’s arms.
“Amen!” responded Caderousse, waving his hand in token of adieu to Danglars, and bending his steps towards the Allées de Meilhan, moving his head to and fro, and muttering as he went, after the manner of one whose mind was overcharged with one absorbing idea.
He was drawing in this circle geometrical lines, and seemed as much absorbed in his problem as Archimedes was when the soldier of Marcellus slew him.
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