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Word: absorb
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Meaning:
Verb:
- transitive To learn
- business To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
- transitive physics To take up by chemical or physical action.
- transitive To consume completely.
- transitive To endure.
- transitive To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, '''absorbed''' in study or in the pursuit of wealth.
- transitive To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to incorporate; to assimilate.
- transitive To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.
Source: Wiktionary
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