sorb

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.