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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



... He was intent, absorbed. As they watched, they saw his hands close convulsively on the sheet he was holding, while his lips muttered some words that made the detective ...
— The Chief Legatee • Anna Katharine Green
... still thus absorbed I heard a sudden shout, the trampling of cavalry, and the sound of trumpets. I again raised my eyes. A strong body of French troopers, covered with the dust of the high-road, and evidently exhausted by a long journey, were passing along ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various
... So absorbed was the captain with this extraordinary scene, that he remained an hour on the staging, watching the course of events. The breakfasts were soon over, having been later than common, and a little hurried; then commenced the more important occupations of the day. A field was already half ...
— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper
... long noses, the larger freckled one surmounted by a pince-nez, the other slightly pink, as if it had absorbed the tint of the blotting-paper over which it was so continually poised, ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley
... a grocer for the rest of his life?—This question, which at first scarcely occurred to him, absorbed as he was in the problem of money-earning for immediate needs, at length began to press and worry. Of course he had meant nothing of the kind; his imagination had seen in the shop a temporary expedient; he had not troubled to pursue the ...
— Will Warburton • George Gissing


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