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| absorbing | |
| 1. adj. Engrossing, that sustains someone's interest. |  |
| An absorbing pursuit. | |
| 2. adj. (statistics, of a state) Allowing a process to enter it, but not to leave it. | |
| absorb | |
| 1. v. 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. v. (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up. | |
| 3. v. To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in. | |
| 4. v. (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it, as | |
| 5. v. (transitive, physics) in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil. | |
| 6. v. (transitive, physics) in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, physics) taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat. | |
| Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass. | |
| 8. v. To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully | |
| 9. v. To occupy or consume time. | |
| 10. v. Assimilate mentally. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction. | |
| 12. v. To defray the costs. | |
| 13. v. To accept or purchase in quantity. | |
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