Definitions for absorb

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absorb ab·sorb

Spelling: [ab-sawrb, -zawrb]

IPA: /æbˈsɔrb, -ˈzɔrb/

Absorb is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in absorb (abbors).

Definitions for absorb

verb (used with object)

1. to suck up or drink in (a liquid); soak up:
2. to swallow up the identity or individuality of; incorporate:
3. to involve the full attention of; to engross or engage wholly:
4. to occupy or fill:
5. to take up or receive by chemical or molecular action:
6. to take in without echo, recoil, or reflection:
7. to take in and utilize:
8. to pay for (costs, taxes, etc.):
9. Archaic. to swallow up.

Origin of absorb

1480-90; Latin absorbēre, equivalent to ab- ab- + sorbēre to suck in, swallow

Examples for absorb

In the book, you say “absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth.”

Accordingly he tried to absorb himself in his thoughts and listen to nothing.

Does she suppose wounds of different kinds to "absorb" each other, so to speak?

He watched Pederson absorb that, too; he saw the excitement grow.

These absorb the nourishment and turn it over to the embryo.

And meanwhile what began to interest and absorb me were sources--testimony.

It gave me license to pore over raw tape, again and again, to absorb the subtle clues of human behavior.

But the details of this massacre have been especially difficult to absorb.

“I welcome China to Africa because Africa is big enough to absorb China,” he said.

Similar reinforced plinths were developed by the Getty museums in Los Angeles to absorb the seismic movements there.