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Absorb

verb

(past & past part. absorbed; pres. part. absorbing)

Become imbued.

Take up mentally. Synonyms: assimilate, ingest, take in.

Take up, as of debts or payments. Synonym: take over.

Take in, also metaphorically. Synonyms: draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up. "She drew strength from the minister's words"

Cause to become one with.

Suck or take up or in. Synonym: take in.

Devote (oneself) fully to. Synonyms: engross, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep.

Assimilate or take in.

Consume all of one's attention or time. Synonyms: engage, engross, occupy.

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"Absorb" Quotes from Famous Books

... of perspiration. In addition to these acids, there is another simultaneously generated—the caprylic, but it does not unpleasantly affect the olfactory nerve. The casein also injuriously affects the fatty constituents of the butter; under its influence they absorb oxygen from the air, and become converted into strong-smelling compounds. The washing of butter is intended to free it from the casein and unaltered cream, and the more perfectly it is freed from those impurities the better will be its flavor, and the longer it will remain without ...

— The Stock-Feeder's Manual - the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and - feeding of live stock • Charles Alexander Cameron

... warm the greased or spotted part of the book or paper, and then press upon it pieces of blotting-paper, one after another, so as to absorb as much of the grease as possible. Have ready some fine clear essential oil of turpentine heated almost to a boiling state, warm the greased leaf a little, and then, with a soft clean brush, apply the heated turpentine to both sides ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... increase our police force, or deport him and sustain a strictly white man's country. If we deport him as fast as Europeans come in, we would soon be done with him as a factor in politics and labor; but as yet we have no place to send him. Through industrial and commercial relations we will soon absorb Mexico and the Central American States, and upon the completion of the Panama Canal we can expand rapidly into South America, where there is a vast area of unsettled country that would make an ideal ...

— The Southern Soldier Boy - A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy • James Carson Elliott

... dead depended upon material food. But it [30] is probable that the real belief in ancient European societies was much like the belief as it exists in modern Japan. The dead are not supposed to consume the substance of the food, but only to absorb the invisible essence of it. In the early period of ancestor-worship the food-offerings were large; later on they were made smaller and smaller as the idea grew up that the spirits required but little sustenance of even the most ...

— Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation • Lafcadio Hearn

... and this with the express pledge that they should be back by a time specified, so as to be prepared for this very campaign. It is hardly necessary to say they were not returned. That department continued to absorb troops to no purpose to the end of the war. This left McPherson so weak that the part of the plan above indicated had to be changed. He was therefore brought up to Chattanooga and moved from there on a road to the right of Thomas—the two coming ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

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