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(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.
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(transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
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(transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
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(intransitive) To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
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(transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it.
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(transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
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(transitive) To occupy or consume time.
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(transitive) To assimilate mentally.
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(transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
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(transitive) To defray the costs.
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(transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.