ABSORBS
- Take in or soak up (energy, or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action, typically gradually
- Take in and assimilate (information, ideas, or experience)
- Take control of (a smaller or less powerful entity), making it a part of oneself by assimilation
- Use or take up (time or resources)
- Take up and reduce the effect or intensity of (sound or an impact)
- Engross the attention of (someone)
- ABSORB, to gather and hold another substance within, compare ADSORB, SORB, DESORB [v]
- ABSORB, to take up or in [v]