The meat was almost blackened by the time it absorbed the smoke, and while the skin was crisp, it gave way between my teeth.
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With a more extensive root system, plants can absorb more nutrients and pump more exudates into the soil to recruit more helpful microbes that can make more indole-3-acetic acid.
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A few amphibians don’t bother with lungs and instead absorb oxygen through their skin.
Scientists Say: Amphibian|Bethany Brookshire|September 21, 2020|Science News For Students
Even with an increase in volume, the system has space to absorb more passengers and still perform well.
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I wanted to learn as much as I could about the trail and, as an educator, he was happy to give me as much information as I could absorb.
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Similar reinforced plinths were developed by the Getty museums in Los Angeles to absorb the seismic movements there.
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In the book, you say “Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth.”
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But the details of this massacre have been especially difficult to absorb.
Anatomy of a Mexican Student Massacre|Jason McGahan|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It gave me license to pore over raw tape, again and again, to absorb the subtle clues of human behavior.
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“I welcome China to Africa because Africa is big enough to absorb China,” he said.
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They had an air of showing him about Princeton as if he must absorb its beauties for the last time.
The Guarded Heights|Wadsworth Camp
This sponge will absorb readily the gross impurities of the water, and can easily be taken out and cleaned once or twice a week.
Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.--No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877|Various
The string will absorb the wax, and may then be placed on one side until needed.
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Does she suppose wounds of different kinds to "absorb" each other, so to speak?
A Tangled Tale|Lewis Carroll
The idea of his book was beginning to absorb him very thoroughly.
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British Dictionary definitions for absorb
absorb
/ (əbˈsɔːb, -ˈzɔːb) /
verb(tr)
to soak or suck up (liquids)
to engage or occupy (the interest, attention, or time) of (someone); engross
to receive or take in (the energy of an impact)
physicsto take in (all or part of incident radiated energy) and retain the part that is not reflected or transmitted
to take in or assimilate; incorporate
to accept and find a market for (goods, etc)
to pay for as part of a commercial transactionthe distributor absorbed the cost of transport
chemto cause to undergo a process in which one substance, usually a liquid or gas, permeates into or is dissolved by a liquid or solidporous solids absorb water; hydrochloric acid absorbs carbon dioxide Compare adsorb
Derived forms of absorb
absorbability, nounabsorbable, adjective
Word Origin for absorb
C15: via Old French from Latin absorbēre to suck, swallow, from ab-1 + sorbēre to suck