absorbed
IPA: ʌbzˈɔrbd
adjective
- Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.
- Something that has been absorbed, taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.
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Examples of "absorbed" in Sentences
- A writer who keeps his reader absorbed is making it easy for the reader.
- These occur when DEET is absorbed from the surface of the skin into the body.
- Dark skin absorbed the energy, which prevented the energy to reach the desired target.
- It's not an alternative to "the pleasure of reading a story" in "absorbed enjoyment" but a supplement to such reading.
- They are poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract, and therefore are not expected to produce systemic effects. 2-6
- Now I think the other part of what you are asking, though, is we do have a significant amount of what we call absorbed gas.
- The dense foliage and constant rain absorbed most of the power, and unless you took a hit in the eyes the most you might suffer is a nasty burn.
- But he was absorbed by his death -- _absorbed_ as though he would tear the secret of it from the body that looked suddenly so empty, and so meaningless.
- Just over a year later the title absorbed Lady Penelope comic, by then simply known as Penelope, and it continued on until December 1973 when it was amalgamated into the magazine Pink.
- And as for unconsciously absorbing radical ideas, few seem to take seriously the accusation that McCain "absorbed" Communism from his time as POW in Vietnam ... and there was no doubt that McCain was there.
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