Absorb

Quick meaning: Absorb is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
2. (intransitive) To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
3. (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it.
4. (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
5. (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
6. (transitive) To assimilate mentally.
7. (transitive) 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.

Example Sentences

Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all.

The drops of water slowly absorbed into the dry sponge.

to be absorpt, or swallowed up, in a lake of fire and brimstone.

Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass.

Word Forms

• absorbs
• absorbing
• absorbed
• absorpt
• absorbest
• absorbedst
• absorbeth

Synonyms for absorb

Depending on context, synonyms include assimilate, engulf, incorporate, overwhelm, draw, imbibe.

Antonyms for absorb

Common opposites include emit.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include suck up, ingest, suck, engulf, immerse, plunge.

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