absorbed

Speech parts

1. absorbed - Adjective

2. absorbed - Verb

4. absorbed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Absorb

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. Donella Meadows

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. Toni Morrison

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it. Alexis de Tocqueville

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination. Martha Graham

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. Pierre Loti

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