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adj. - (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance.

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  • The sorbed oil mass
  • Hundreds of feet tall, his stance spanning the nearby breaks, Glenshadow ab - sorbed the blackness cast at him.
  • The Tukar'ramin followed the ageold text, as handed down by the Illuminates: — all strandsharers, near and far, fiat and thin, sorbed and heed.
  • She need only look at that picture of Tan, at his intense, ab - sorbed face as he readied machines to wipe out life, and know how deeply they had been stricken.
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