Definition of absorb

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Absorb (v. t.) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.

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Imbibe :: Imbibe (v. t.) To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors..
Tent :: Tent (n.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges..
Merge :: Merge (v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
Occlude :: Occlude (v. t.) To take in and retain; to absorb; -- said especially with respect to gases; as iron, platinum, and palladium occlude large volumes of hydrogen..
Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs..
Reabsorb :: Reabsorb (v. t.) To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids..
Pore :: Pore (v. i.) To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over..
Devout :: Devout (v. t.) Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.
Digestion :: Digestion (n.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood..
Absorbency :: Absorbency (n.) Absorptiveness.
Membrane :: Membrane (n.) A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids..
Lymph :: Lymph (n.) A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together..
Absorbent :: Absorbent (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
Villus :: Villus (n.) One of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals and serve to increase the absorbing surface..
Absorbedly :: Absorbedly (adv.) In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.
Blotter :: Blotter (n.) One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink..
Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. t.) To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue..
Holdfast :: Holdfast (n.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture..
Arterialization :: Arterialization (n.) The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aeration and hematosis..
Inunction :: Inunction (n.) The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed..
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