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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.  Antonym: emit.
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



... the sacred feast in which they were to take part. But the boy's mind was far away from the things that were occupying his parent's thoughts. He was thinking over the deep mystic truths which He had so readily absorbed during the past few years, and He was looking forward in delightful anticipation to His expected meeting with the older mystics in the temples and public ...
— Mystic Christianity • Yogi Ramacharaka
... scientist in his laboratory, trying to unite certain elements to produce new substance. Here is the beauty in her silken nest; here the lover; there the musician; yonder the peanut man and in the office building is the captain of industry: All busy bees deeply absorbed in their respective interests, and intoxicated in the belief that they are ...
— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter
... pass that while I was utterly absorbed in pride and sensuality, divine grace, the cure for both diseases, was forced upon me, even though I, forsooth, would fain have shunned it. First was I punished for my sensuality, and then for my pride. For my sensuality I lost those things whereby I practiced it; ...
— Historia Calamitatum • Peter Abelard
... hitherto practised in his establishment, John's income was princely, and left a large balance to be devoted to works of general benevolence; but he perceived that, in this year, that balance would be all absorbed; and this troubled him. ...
— Pink and White Tyranny - A Society Novel • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... creations here, first of the earth, man's home; and then of man himself who was to live in the home. Here at once in the beginning is mother-love. Before the new life comes the mother is absorbed in getting the home ready; the best and softest and homiest home that her mother-love can think of, and her fingers fix. The same mother instinct in the birds spends itself in getting the nest ready, and ...
— Quiet Talks with World Winners • S. D. Gordon


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