2syllables
absorb
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Definitions ofabsorb
1verb
- 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 engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
- To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
- To take in energy and convert it, as
Example: "Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass."
- To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully
- To occupy or consume time.
- Assimilate mentally.
- To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
- To defray the costs.
- To accept or purchase in quantity.
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