Contextualizebeta

absorbed

adj
/æbˈsɔɹbd/US

Etymology

From absorb + -ed.

  1. derived from *srebʰ-✻
  2. derived from absorbeō — “swallow up”
  3. derived from assorbir
  4. derived from absorber
  5. suffixed as absorbed — “absorb + ed”

Definitions

  1. Fully occupied with one's thoughts

    Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.

    • fully absorbed
    • deeply absorbed
    • She was so absorbed in her book that she didn’t hear the phone.

  2. That has been taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:absorbed.

  3. simple past and past participle of absorb

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:absorbed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for absorbed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA