ABSORB

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absorb verb tranzitiv

1. a suge, a absorbi.

2. a încorpora, a integra, a îngloba;

to be absorbed by a se contopi cu.

3. a amortiza (izbiturile).

4. a înghiţi.

5. (fig.) a absorbi, a fi preocupat de; a asimila;

absorbed in thoughts cufundat / adâncit în gânduri, dus pe gânduri;

he is absorbed in tennis tot timpul şi-l petrece jucind tenis, îl preocupă numai tenisul.

6. (fig.) a absorbi, a înmagazina;

he had absorbed all the knowledge of his time îşi însuşise toată ştiinţa epocii sale.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The results showed that four coastal species were able to absorb the impacts of storms across a wide range of severity.

(Coastal birds can weather the storm, but not the sea, National Science Foundation)

If your physical home is not absorbing your attention, it will be a parent or another member of your family that consumes your attention.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

The ability of a drug or other substance to be absorbed and used by the body.

(Bioavailable, NCI Dictionary)

I sat until after eleven in this room, absorbed in a book.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meg will be absorbed and no good to me any more.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

It was not until long after we were back in Poldhu Cottage that Holmes broke his complete and absorbed silence.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Creatures so absorbed in care about their pretty faces, and their white hands, and their small feet; as if a man had anything to do with beauty!

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It appeared to me that he never thought of being observed by anyone; but was so intent upon her, and upon his own thoughts in connexion with her, as to be quite absorbed.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

After so long a period of an absorbing melancholy that resembled madness in its intensity and effects, he was glad to find that I was capable of taking pleasure in the idea of such a journey, and he hoped that change of scene and varied amusement would, before my return, have restored me entirely to myself.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A critical question that warrants continued observations of the ocean is if this uptake can be sustained and what might happen to the Earth’s atmosphere if the ocean is unable to absorb continued increased carbon dioxide.

(Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil fuel emissions, NOAA)

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