absorbed
Use Absorbed in a sentence
adjective
deeply interested or involved; preoccupied: He had an absorbed look on his face.
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verb (used with object)
1.
to suck up or drink in (a liquid); soak up: A sponge absorbs water.
2.
to swallow up the identity or individuality of; incorporate: The empire absorbed many small nations.
3.
to involve the full attention of; to engross or engage wholly: so absorbed in a book that he did not hear the bell.
4.
to occupy or fill: This job absorbs all of my time.
5.
to take up or receive by chemical or molecular action: Carbonic acid is formed when water absorbs carbon dioxide.
6.
to take in without echo, recoil, or reflection: to absorb sound and light; to absorb shock.
7.
to take in and utilize: The market absorbed all the computers we could build. Can your brain absorb all this information?
8.
to pay for (costs, taxes, etc.): The company will absorb all the research costs.
9.
Archaic. to swallow up.
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absorb (əbˈsɔːb, -ˈzɔːb) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to soak or suck up (liquids) |
| 2. | to engage or occupy (the interest, attention, or time) of (someone); engross |
| 3. | to receive or take in (the energy of an impact) |
| 4. | physics to take in (all or part of incident radiated energy) and retain the part that is not reflected or transmitted |
| 5. | to take in or assimilate; incorporate |
| 6. | to accept and find a market for (goods, etc) |
| 7. | to pay for as part of a commercial transaction: the distributor absorbed the cost of transport |
| 8. | chem Compare adsorb to cause to undergo a process in which one substance, usually a liquid or gas, permeates into or is dissolved by a liquid or solid: porous solids absorb water; hydrochloric acid absorbs carbon dioxide |
| [C15: via Old French from Latin absorbēre to suck, swallow, from | |
| absorba'bility | |
| —n | |
| ab'sorbable | |
| —adj | |
| absorbed (əbˈsɔːbd, -ˈzɔːbd) | |
| —adj | |
| engrossed; deeply interested | |
| absorbedly | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
absorb
late 15c., from M.Fr. absorber (O.Fr. assorbir), from L. absorbere "to swallow up," from ab- "from" + sorbere "suck in," from PIE base *srebh- "to suck, absorb" (cf. Armenian arbi "I drank," Gk. rhopheo "to sup greedily up, gulp down," Lith. srebiu "to drink greedily"). Figurative meaning "to completely
grip (one's) attention" is from 1753.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
absorb ab·sorb (əb-sôrb', -zôrb')
v. ab·sorbed, ab·sorb·ing, ab·sorbs
To take in by absorption.
To reduce the intensity of transmitted light.
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Example sentences
Pour the hot syrup over baked pudding until it is completely absorbed.
If you choose the color of light and the substance sensibly, you can arrange things so that all the light is absorbed.
But higher labour and equipment costs absorbed much of the increase.
Much of the richness of life is absorbed through the ear.
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