Fiil
/əbˈzɔːb/ · /əbˈsɔːb/ · /æbˈsɔɹb/(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.
(transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
(transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
(intransitive) To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
The drops of water slowly absorbed into the dry sponge.
(transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it.
Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass.
(transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
(transitive) To occupy or consume time.
(transitive) To assimilate mentally.
If we fail to absorb the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat them.
(transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
(transitive) To defray the costs.
I’ll absorb the charge for the window replacement.
Eş anlamlılar: eat
(transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.
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