absorb
(Englisch)
- (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.
- (obsolete, transitive) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
- (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
- (intransitive) To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
- (transitive) To take in energy and convert it.
- (transitive) To take in energy and convert it.
- (transitive) To take in energy and convert it.
- (transitive) To take in energy and convert it.
- (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
- (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
- (transitive) To assimilate mentally.
- (transitive) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
- (transitive) To defray the costs.
- (transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.
Frequenz
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/əbˈzɔːb/
Etymologie (Englisch)
In summary
From Middle French absorber, from Old French assorbir, from Latin absorbeō (“swallow up”), from ab- (“from”) + sorbeō (“suck in, swallow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ- (“to sip”). Compare French absorber.
Related words
in Anspruch nehmen
gefangen nehmen
sorbieren
rezipieren
ganz in Anspruch nehmen
aufkaufen und horten
auf sich ziehen
Bann schlagen
einschlürfen
einsenken
an sich bringen
be absorbed
have at one’s disposal
immersed in
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