Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not absorbable; specifically (Physiol.), not capable of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood.
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- adjective Not
absorbable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The webs in my body were the unabsorbable chemicals, the residue particles strung together from the artificial sweeteners, chemicals from the butter spray, and chemicals from the Jell-O, the alcohol, and the nicotine.
Unbearable Lightness Portia de Rossi 2010
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Trauma, the experience of unabsorbable unpleasure, brings out both streams of motives, to minimize the hurt and to bring satisfaction instead.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 1 2008
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The molecules of palmitic acid in formula are arranged in a way that causes some of the fat to combine with calcium in an unabsorbable “soap.”
Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007
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The molecules of palmitic acid in formula are arranged in a way that causes some of the fat to combine with calcium in an unabsorbable “soap.”
Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007
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Trauma, the experience of unabsorbable unpleasure, brings out both streams of motives, to minimize the hurt and to bring satisfaction instead.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 1 2006
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If we were to absorb the total cost of that premium, it isn't is an unabsorbable amount for a small business.
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Will not the Jews always remain the carriers of an alien culture, unabsorbable and unassimilable, despite their conversion and intermarriage?
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Empire, been found a singularly unabsorbable person.
A History of the United States Cecil Chesterton 1898
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During modern era you might get a truer measure of equilibrium CO2 sensitivity because you’re not saturating the system with a sudden, unabsorbable CO2 burst.
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