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Absorbed   /əbzˈɔrbd/   Listen
Absorbed

adjective
1.
Giving or marked by complete attention to.  Synonyms: captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrapped.  "Then wrapped in dreams" , "So intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred" , "Rapt with wonder" , "Wrapped in thought"
2.
Retained without reflection.


Absorb

verb
(past & past part. absorbed; pres. part. absorbing)
1.
Become imbued.
2.
Take up mentally.  Synonyms: assimilate, ingest, take in.
3.
Take up, as of debts or payments.  Synonym: take over.
4.
Take in, also metaphorically.  Synonyms: draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up.  "She drew strength from the minister's words"
5.
Cause to become one with.
6.
Suck or take up or in.  Synonym: take in.
7.
Devote (oneself) fully to.  Synonyms: engross, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep.
8.
Assimilate or take in.
9.
Consume all of one's attention or time.  Synonyms: engage, engross, occupy.



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"Absorbed" Quotes from Famous Books



... in two forms: (1) As liquid water contained in the cavities of the cells or pores, and (2) as "imbibed" water intimately absorbed in the substance of which the wood is composed. The removal of the free water from the cells or pores will evidently have no effect upon the physical properties or shrinkage of the wood, but as soon as any of the "imbibed" moisture is removed from the cell walls, shrinkage begins to ...
— Seasoning of Wood • Joseph B. Wagner
... our newly-arrived and self-invited guest took my sister Florrie in tow, and, having convoyed her safely to a chair, brought himself to an anchor alongside her, playing the agreeable so effectively that he quite absorbed Miss Florrie's attention during the meal. On the departure of the ladies, the object of his visit came out. He had, in just recognition of his services, been appointed to the command of a new frigate, named the "Astarte," which was then fitting- out at Portsmouth for the ...
— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood
... same phenomenon, is the striving for self-assertion of the individual, which is the mark of all progress towards higher civilization. The contrapuntal mass or motet expressed the commonwealth of the Church, where the individual disappears, absorbed in the community. The nuove musiche sought to emancipate the individual, and allow him to express his own independent existence. Thus the progress of the modern musical drama presents an exact parallel to that of the Greek drama, from before Thespis onwards, except that ...
— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight
... anxious and absorbed, and hung over the furnace as if it depended upon his utmost watchfulness whether the liquid which it was distilling should be the draught of immortal happiness or misery. How different from the sanguine and joyous mien that he had assumed for ...
— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... on in the darkness, Jim Airth smoked and talked, painting vivid word-pictures of life and adventure in other lands. And Myra listened, absorbed and enchanted; every moment realising more fully, as he unconsciously revealed it, the manly strength and honest simplicity of his big nature, with its fun and its fire; its huge capacity for enjoyment; its corresponding capacity ...
— The Mistress of Shenstone • Florence L. Barclay


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