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"Absorb" Definition
verb-transitive
To assume or pay for (a cost or costs)
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Source:
American Heritage Dictionary
To learn; acquire: "Matisse absorbed the lesson and added to it a new language of color” ( Peter Plagen)
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American Heritage Dictionary
To occupy the full attention, interest, or time of; engross. See Synonyms at monopolize
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American Heritage Dictionary
To receive (an impulse) without echo or recoil: a fabric that absorbs sound; a bumper that absorbs impact
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American Heritage Dictionary
To retain (radiation or sound, for example) wholly, without reflection or transmission
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American Heritage Dictionary
verb
To take in and make part of an existent whole
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Source:
Merriam-Webster
To suck up or take up
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Source:
Merriam-Webster
To take in
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Source:
Merriam-Webster
To engage or engross wholly
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Source:
Merriam-Webster
To receive without recoil or echo
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Merriam-Webster
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