Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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“absorbs” is a form of

absorb

UK /əbˈzɔːb/ · US /æbˈsɔɹb/ verb

Forms absorbs absorbing absorbed absorpt absorbest absorbedst absorbeth

  1. verb (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
  2. verb (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
  3. verb (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
  4. verb (intransitive) To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in. “The drops of water slowly absorbed into the dry sponge.”
  5. verb (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it. “Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass.”
  6. verb (transitive, physics) in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
  7. verb (transitive, physics) in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
  8. verb (transitive, physics) taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.

Synonyms

assimilate engulf incorporate swallow up overwhelm draw drink in imbibe soak up sop up suck suck up steep take in take up engage engross immerse monopolize occupy ingest take over plunge

Antonyms

emit

Etymology

From Middle French absorber, from Old French assorbir, from Latin absorbeō (“swallow up”), from ab- (“from”) + sorbeō (“suck in, swallow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ- (“to sip”). Compare French absorber.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper.
  2. verb To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body. Bacon.

Etymology [L. absorbere; ab + sorbere to suck in, akin to Gr. absorber.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “absorb”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “absorb” (best matches first).