What does absorbed mean?
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ab·sorbed
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Princeton's WordNet
captive, absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrappedadjective
giving or marked by complete attention to
"that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "then wrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought"
absorbedadjective
retained without reflection
"the absorbed light intensity"
Wiktionary
absorbedadjective
fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed
absorbedadjective
taken in by a body without reflection
absorbedadjective
taken by through the pores of a surface
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absorbed
Absorbed refers to having taken in or soaked up a substance, energy, information, or impact thoroughly and completely. It can pertain to physical entities such as liquids, gases or energy, or to mental processes like concentrating fully on something or assimilating knowledge or information. It implies engrossment or total engagement in a situation or context.
absorbed
Absorbed generally refers to the process of taking in or assimilating something, completely engaging or engrossing oneself in a particular activity or interest. It can also refer to the scientific process in which a substance, energy, or light is taken in by another substance.
Webster Dictionary
Absorbed
of Absorb
Editors Contribution
absorbedverb
Verb form of the word absorb.
They absorbed the information and retained it easily.
Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of absorbed in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of absorbed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of absorbed in a Sentence
If found, the fungus should not be touched, and definitely not eaten, of the hundred or so toxic mushrooms that are known to researchers, this is the only one in which the toxins can be absorbed through the skin.
… I think that Britney was obviously going through her own s--t, but I think I was so absorbed in my own s--t, that I couldn't even think about that.
The armed groups will remain in their camps until an agreement is found with them about whether their members will be integrated and young people absorbed within certain programs according the security plan.
I take a character who in a million years would never think she'd be the main character in a movie... but here I make her front and center. I think that's her emotional journey, as she goes from being like an afterthought in the school to being the main character -- like, really owning it in her life, i think that's probably true for a lot of us... we might think about ourselves a lot and we're self-absorbed, but we don't always see ourselves as the main characters in our life.
It's not news that things that you put on your skin are absorbed into the body, this study is the FDA's way of showing sunscreen manufacturers they need to do the studies to see if chemical absorption poses health risks.
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