reabsorbv.

1720 J. Quincy Medico-Physical Ess. iv. 61 in tr. S. Santorio Medicina Statica (ed. 2) What..cannot get through this way..must be either reabsorbed, or taken back by the refluent Blood.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. xxiii. 251 Psyche becomes reabsorbed into the ocean from whence she sprung.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. ii. 293 Chaos has reabsorbed him; may it late or never bear his like again.

1870 Times 30 July 7/3 Mr. Wheelhouse inquired whether,..it was intended to reabsorb those who had been thrown out of employment.

1919 J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace 145 Government..has to provide for re-absorbing most of the disbanded munition workers into civil occupations.

1951 A. Grollman Pharmacol. & Therapeutics xxxii. 750 Mannitol..is filtered through the glomeruli but is neither reabsorbed nor excreted by the tubules.

1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 June 59/1 It impedes the capacity of certain synaptic receptors to reabsorb a certain neurotransmitter, norepinephrine.

2005 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 7 June c4/5 Two of the 15 plants would be reabsorbed by Ford.

1916 J. Galsworthy in Scribner's Mag. Jan. 17/1 In one's heart rose an ecstasy of love for this..earth which breeds us all, and into which we reabsorb.

2003 B. Wagner Still Holding iii. 261 Her heart was kind and large and damaged—it grew larger each day and pumped less blood to its own system, an aneurysmal craving to burst and reabsorb into the generalized heart of needy humanity.