Absorbs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABSORBS in dictionary:

VERB:
• ABSORB, 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

Words related to ABSORBS

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How to use ABSORBS in a sentence

• The roots of this immense tree fill the ground, forming a thick sponge that absorbs and holds back the rains and melting snows, only allowing them to ooze and flow gently.
• But, compared with our ancestors, individual culture, to which freedom is the means, absorbs a large share of our expenditure.
• The police, like a great sponge, absorbs the private virtue.
• There are moments when a healthy body suddenly absorbs germs of consumption that it has hitherto thrown off in hale disregard.
• A great poet, who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is anywhere radiating.
• The large branch absorbs the Kooreeala, Chouka, and other small streams, on its way to rejoin the smaller.
• Charcoal is porous and absorbs foul gases, and thus keeps the region surrounding sewers sweet and clean and free of odor.
• A red carpet absorbs the light rays incident upon it except the red rays, and these it reflects to the eye.
• The decaying vegetable matter which covers the forest floor acts more or less as a sponge, and quickly absorbs falling rain and melting snow.
• The deposited copper absorbs oxygen pretty readily by simple exposure to damp air, and can be used again.
• The purest joy known to the reader is a perception of the beauty and power of a work of art so fresh and instantaneous that it completely absorbs the whole nature.
• It absorbs water, and becomes soft and pliable like animal parchment, but is water-proof.
• But I happen to know that he absorbs a good deal of sustenance from the Delmonico Hotel.
• Music! She began to absorb it as parched earth absorbs the tardy rain.
• The unconscious impressions which a boy absorbs at this period of his life are apt to play a decisive part in fashioning his future.
• It will probably therefore not yet have learned that a second existence has linked itself to mine, and completely absorbs it.
• The material existence of this society of yours absorbs all your care, and requires more than all your efforts.
• The rubbing of the hot iron over this cloth absorbs just enough of the wax to make the iron work smoothly.
• It should not be allowed to remain in close proximity to any substances of strong odor, as it very readily absorbs odors and gaseous impurities.
• It absorbs oxygen from the air of the room, and gives off carbonic acid gas.
• It is the study of human nature which for a brief time absorbs us, much more than the study of events.
• Being exposed for a longer while to the air, it absorbs carbonic acid and water, and becomes white on the surface.
• And it is true that the story of Siegmund and Sieglinde, or of Siegfried and Bruennhilde, absorbs one for a time so completely that one forgets all about Wotan and his woes.

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