absorb
21absorb — verb /əbˈzɔːb,əbˈsɔːb,æbˈzɔːrb,æbˈsɔːrb/ a) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to …
22absorb — Synonyms and related words: ablate, absorb the attention, adsorb, appreciate, apprehend, appropriate, arrest, assimilate, be with one, bleed white, blot, blot up, burn up, buy up, catch, catch on, catch up in, charm, chemisorb, chemosorb, come… …
23absorb — Describes what happens when a molecule from a fluid phase (gas or liquid) dissolves in a solid. Absorb is different from adsorb …
24absorb — [15] Absorb comes, via French absorber, from Latin absorbēre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ab ‘away’ and sorbēre ‘suck up, swallow’. Words connected with drinking and swallowing quite often contain the sounds s or sh, r, and b or p –… …
25absorb — verb 1) a spongelike material that absorbs water Syn: soak up, suck up, draw up/in, take up/in, blot up, mop up, sop up Ant: exude 2) she absorbed the information in silence Syn …
26absorb — /əbˈsɔb / (say uhb sawb), / ˈzɔb/ (say zawb) verb (t) 1. to swallow up the identity or individuality of: the empire absorbed all the small states. 2. to engross wholly: absorbed in a book. 3. to suck up or drink in (liquids): a sponge absorbs… …
27absorb — /əb zɔ:b/ verb to take in a small item so as to form part of a larger one ♦ overheads have absorbed all our profits all our profits have gone in paying overhead expenses ♦ to absorb a loss by a subsidiary to write a subsidiary company’s loss into …
28absorb — /əb zɔ:b/ verb to take in a small item so that it forms part of a larger one ♦ overheads have absorbed all our profits all our profits have gone in paying overhead expenses ♦ to absorb a loss by a subsidiary to include a subsidiary company’s loss …
29absorb — [15] Absorb comes, via French absorber, from Latin absorbēre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ab ‘away’ and sorbēre ‘suck up, swallow’. Words connected with drinking and swallowing quite often contain the sounds s or sh, r, and b or p –… …
30absorb the attention — index occupy (engage) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
