Absorb is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABSORB in dictionary:

VERB:
• to take up or in
• take in and understand fully (information, ideas, or experience)
• take control of (a smaller or less powerful entity) and make it a part of a larger one
• use or take up (time or resources)
• take up and reduce the effect or intensity of (sound or an impact)
• take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action
• take up the attention of (someone); interest greatly
• soak up (a liquid)
• To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
• To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.
• To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.
• To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.
• become imbued
• take up mentally
• take up, as of debts or payments
• take in, also metaphorically
• cause to become one with
• suck or take up or in
• devote (oneself) fully to
• assimilate or take in
• consume all of one\'s attention or time

Words related to ABSORB

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Words that contain ABSORB

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How to use ABSORB in a sentence

• Directly they are done, they must he taken out, and laid before the fire for a minute or two on a sieve reversed, covered with blotting-paper to absorb the fat.
• This is a valid answer if the home consumption rises sufficiently to absorb the goods formerly exported to pay for agricultural imports.
• For although our ears might be hard to find, we yet absorb or draw in sound very readily.
• I suppose few of my readers imagine how many pounds of water a blanket can absorb.
• I absorb love, hatred, and sorrow as a cancer breeds in a diseased organism.
• In France itself he had quite enough of questions to be solved and perils to be surmounted to absorb and satisfy the most vigilant and most active of men.
• Sometimes the flour will absorb another pint of water.
• Either the functions of private corporations will increase till they absorb the central government, or the functions of government will increase till it absorbs the corporations.
• Even in novels, love shows at its best when it does not absorb the whole plot.
• The books! the books! my only hope was to absorb myself, body and soul, in the books.
• She began to be afraid that, having no information of importance with which to absorb his attention, he might to some extent make a fool of himself.
• Her eyes saw distances too big for their conception, beauties so deep that her spirit had to expand to absorb them.
• It was but natural that such studies should totally absorb me, occupy my whole energies, and keep me most busily employed.
• Some carried the assimilation so far as to absorb the god of Mendes, or to be absorbed in him.
• Women, being literal, are apt to absorb dangerous doctrine and put it to the test.
• Dennison, they contrived to absorb enough of it to keep them going.
• Hence group III will be understood to include, or rather absorb, group IV.
• The vegetables will then absorb enough water to replace what has been lost by evaporation.
• This passion came to possess me, to occupy my mind, and absorb my whole being.
• He would obey Damaris, absorb the contents of this extraordinary document, the facts it conveyed both explicitly and implicitly, to the last word before he spoke.
• My capital was limited, and if we gathered six thousand head it would absorb my money.
• The English Romantic school have no more future, unless they absorb French drawing and French technique.
• Their own local and general politics absorb any interest and leisure not claimed by business and pastimes.
• A 5-foot depth would absorb the radiation from particles falling into the water and settling on the bottom.

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