Misabsorb
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Misabsorb is a verb meaning To absorb wrongly.
Meaning
To absorb wrongly.
Example Sentences
Misabsorbed medicines from the upper GIT
A good majority of personality issues comes from aberrant experiences that are misabsorbed in one's psyche, leading to a lack of self-awareness and to self-doubt.
Not surprisingly, some of the most influential of these interpreters—including Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Edmund Wilson, and Kenneth Burke—have operated outside the academy, for within that establishment Freud and his followers have frequently met the fate of other radical innovators: ignored or deplored by many, championed with narrow, even arrogant zeal by some, misabsorbed by nearly everyone after a while.
Word Forms
- misabsorbs
- misabsorbing
- misabsorbed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mislearn, misdigest, misassume, misascribe, misperceive, misread.
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