Definitions for absorbs

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absorbs ab·sorb

Spelling: [ab-sawrb, -zawrb]

IPA: /æbˈsɔrb, -ˈzɔrb/

Absorbs is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in absorbs (abborss).

Definitions for absorbs

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 absorbs

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

Examples for absorbs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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