absorb

verbA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

absorbs

V_ing/Gerund

absorbing

V_ed/pp

absorbedabsorpt

1.
(transitive)To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
2.
(obsolete, transitive)To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
3.
(transitive)To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
4.
(intransitive)To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
The drops of water slowly absorbed into the dry sponge.
5.
(transitive)(transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it.
Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass.
6.
(transitive)To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
7.
(transitive)To occupy or consume time.
8.
(transitive)To assimilate mentally.
If we fail to absorb the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat them.
9.
(transitive)(transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
10.
(transitive)To defray the costs.
I’ll absorb the charge for the window replacement.
Đồng nghĩa: eat
11.
(transitive)To accept or purchase in quantity.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

eat assume bearpay foruse upassimilate engulf incorporate overwhelmswallow upengage engrossimmersemonopolize occupy drawdrink inimbibesoak upsop up

Trái nghĩa

emit

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle French absorber, from Old French assorbir, from Latin absorbeō (swallow up), from ab- + sorbeō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ- (to sip). Compare absorber.