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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sorb.

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  • adjective (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance

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Examples

  • From each sound, she gained an image of what he knew, stored it away, and made it her own The sounds were inhuman and rife with pain, but she ab - sorbed them without flinching, bathing him in a wash of compas -

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • Hundreds of feet tall, his stance spanning the nearby breaks, Glenshadow ab - sorbed the blackness cast at him.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • Hundreds of feet tall, his stance spanning the nearby breaks, Glenshadow ab - sorbed the blackness cast at him.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • Hundreds of feet tall, his stance spanning the nearby breaks, Glenshadow ab - sorbed the blackness cast at him.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • The Tukar'ramin followed the ageold text, as handed down by the Illuminates: — all strandsharers, near and far, fiat and thin, sorbed and heed.

    Tides Of Light Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1989

  • Myrddin found little chance now to slip away to the mirror cave and sometimes he chafed with impatience, but he did not realize how much of the teaching he had ab - sorbed.

    Merlin's Mirror Norton, Andre 1975

  • She need only look at that picture of Tan, at his intense, ab - sorbed face as he readied machines to wipe out life, and know how deeply they had been stricken.

    Breed to Come Norton, Andre 1972

  • Mr. Dashwood was much wider awake than before, which was agreeable and Mr. Dashwood was not too deeply ab - sorbed in a cigar to remember his manners, so the second interview was much more comfortable than the first.

    Little Women 1921

  • 'All my life I have sorbed others -- now I am sorbed.

    A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay 1910

  • But this particular breadfruit was of a fattening natur ', whether eaten or, as you may say, ab-sorbed into the system through a part of it getting down to the bilge and fermenting, and the gas of it working up through the vessel.

    The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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