Word Finder - absorbed

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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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To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.

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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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To take in energy and convert it, as

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Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass.

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To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully

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To occupy or consume time.

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Assimilate mentally.

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To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.

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To defray the costs.

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To accept or purchase in quantity.

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Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.

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Something that has been absorbed, taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.

She took his hand and absorbed what she could of his power.

When she returned, he was absorbed in the paper.

He absorbed the blast and bent to haul her up.

So absorbed was she in thought that she didn't notice when he entered the room behind her.

Closing her eyes against the bright sunlight, she absorbed its warmth.

She was soon absorbed in whatever she did on the computer.

After the disaster at Flodden he was completely absorbed in public business.

A'Ran absorbed her words, which fell hard upon his ears.

They both fell silent, absorbed in the beauty of the country around them.

He was too much absorbed in observing the famous man's personality.

He became still more absorbed in his task when the Russian general entered, and after glancing over his spectacles at Balashev's face, which was animated by the beauty of the morning and by his talk with Murat, he did not rise or even stir, but scowled still more and sneered malevolently.

Desolation absorbed her into her thoughts, until Jade spoke again.

So absorbed was he in tormenting her, that he didn't seem to notice.

Within seconds he was absorbed in the evening paper.

All seemed fully absorbed in these pursuits.

She stared up at him in amazement as she absorbed his offhanded invitation.

Pierre did not look out at the battlefield and was not concerned to know what was happening there; he was entirely absorbed in watching this fire which burned ever more brightly and which he felt was flaming up in the same way in his own soul.

So absorbed was she with inner thoughts that the movement didn't immediately catch her attention.

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Without changing his careless attitude, Pierre looked at them over his spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him.

Then he became absorbed in a map laid out on the logs.

Lisa jerked her head around and glared at him, but his attention was fully absorbed by the destruction.

Of the expenditure a large amount is absorbed by interest on debt.

Along this line of speculation we have a logic which claims that whatsoever is in one plane or at one stage in the development of thought a residuum that apparently defies analysis must at another stage and on a higher plane be shown so to be absorbed as to fall altogether within thought.

What was true in formal logic tended to be absorbed in the correlationist theories.

What is of value in the earlier works has now been absorbed.

According to theosophy, it would appear that these notions are for the most part mistaken, or at any rate they are quite insignificant in comparison with the interests with which the traveller along the Path soon finds himself absorbed.

It continued, however, to be governed by native princes until it was absorbed by the encroaching power of Pontus.

In 1899 hay and grain represented slightly more than a third of the farm acreage and capital and also of the value of all farm products; live-stock and dairy farms represented slightly more than half the acreage, and slightly under 30% of the capital and produce; fruit farms absorbed 6.2% of the acreage and 27% of the capital, and returned 22.5% of the value of farm produce.

We know of it in 188-168 B.C. as dependent on Rhodes, and, from 168 till the time when the emperor Claudius absorbed it in the provincial system, as an independent state under Roman protection.

The vanquished retired to the hills or absorbed the victors.

The correct perspective places between the summits of modern and ancient times, not a long level stretch of a thousand years, with mankind stationary, spell-bound under the authority of the Church, absorbed in war or monastic dreams, but a downward and then a long upward slope, on both of which the forces which make for civilization may be seen at work.

Scholasticism, which absorbed the attention of most thinkers from about the 11th to about the 15th centuries, is so easily marked off and played so considerable a role in the academic history of that time, that historians often refer to it as the only intellectual interest of "medieval" men.

Bochart was a man of profound erudition; he possessed a thorough knowledge of the principal Oriental languages, including Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldaic and Arabic; and at an advanced age he wished to learn Ethiopic. He was so absorbed in his favourite study, that he saw Phoenician and nothing but Phoenician in everything, even in Celtic words, and hence the number of chimerical etymologies which swarm in his works.

When applied in this fashion a certain quantity of the cantharides is absorbed.

Their work is the first absolutely modern work, - modern in the sense of having absorbed the stores of classic learning and reproduced those treasures in forms of simple, natural, native beauty.

It absorbed the relics of antiquity with omnivorous appetite, and with very imperfect sense of the distinction between worse and better Criticism.

That attempt to extinguish honest thought prepared the Reformation; and humanism after 1518 was absorbed in politico-religious warfare.

We have now to speak of France, which earliest absorbed the influence of the Italian revival, and of England, which received it latest.

France had already absorbed the earlier Renaissance in an Italianizing spirit before the Reformation made itself felt as a political actuality.

He determined the specific gravity of these gases with reference to common air, investigated the extent to which they are absorbed by various liquids, and noted that common air containing one part in nine by volume of fixed air is no longer able to support combustion, and that the air produced by fermentation and putrefaction has properties identical with those of fixed air obtained from marble.

Peltier (1785-1845) in 1814 discovered that a current passed across the junction of two metals either generated or absorbed heat.

Karl Schwarz happily remarks that, as the English apologists of the 18th century were themselves infected with the poison of the deists whom they end eavoured to refute, so Tholuck absorbed some of the heresies of the rationalists whom he tried to overthrow.

Tannic acid is absorbed as gallic acid into the blood and eliminated as gallic and pyrogallic acids, darkening the urine.

Its establishment and strength on the 1st of October 1909 were 90,664 and 69,954 respectively, without counting in the latter figure 6172 militia and militia reserve men not then absorbed into the new organization.

He spent the greater part of his time quietly in his own chamber, often having his meals brought there and sometimes not leaving it for two or three days together when absorbed in his studies.

Suppose we have an inductive and a non-inductive circuit in series, which is traversed by a periodic current, and that we desire to know the power being absorbed to the inductive circuit.

She was on the point of being absorbed in that Northern System, the invention of the Russian minister of foreign affairs, Nikita Panin, which that patient statesman had made it the ambition of his life to realize.

At the beginning of 1897 the public attention was absorbed by foreign political questions.

Nowadays the congress has virtually absorbed the executive power, with the result that the cabinet is often changed many times in one year.