sorb

soak up

Usage

  • absorb

    When something, such as a towel, absorbs something else, such as water, it soaks it up or takes it in.

  • absorbency

    Absorptiveness.

  • absorbent

    Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

  • absorption

    The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.

  • reabsorb

    To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids.

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