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resorb
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resorb \Re*sorb"\ (r?-s?rb"), v. t. [L. reorbere; pref. re- re- + sorbere to suck or drink in.] To swallow up. Now lifted by the tide, and now resorbed. --Young. (Biol.) to absorb (something which has been secreted or exuded by the same organism).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from French résorber or directly from Latin resorbere "to suck back," from re- "back, again" (see re- ) + sorbere "to suck" (see absorb ). Related: Resorbed ; resorbing .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. undergo resorption [syn: reabsorb ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) to absorb (something) again 2 (context intransitive English) to undergo resorption 3 (context biology transitive English) to dissolve something (as for example bone, sinew, or suture) and assimilate it.
Usage examples of resorb.
But if she is not quite saying what I think she is not quite saying, they are proposing to resorb some of the neurons I have now, as an adult.
My sister had cancer and they programmed her body to resorb the tumor.
Has grown and grown, and with her mellow shade Has blanched my thornless thoughts to her own hue, And even now is budding into blossom, Which never shall bear fruit, but inward still Resorb its vital nectar, self-contained, And leave no living copies of its beauty To after ages.
Then, her evergrowing bulk cramped, she would resorb the hard covering.
Clinton described resorption during development: redundant neurons disappear, resorbed by the body, a process controlled by feedback control mechanisms using sensory data in part.
All around, the tables resorbed into the floor, leaving crumbs and scraps and disintegrating utensils.
She ran to Timka who was a shuddering amorphous lump, all the scattered bits had been resorbed but the Min was in Chorinya, being wrenched through uncontrollable shifts.
She resorbed the handgrips and reformed the cube, tucked the excavator into its case and clicked the lid home.
If, by rare chance, the ERV-knockout embryos managed to implant and begin development, they were invariably resorbed within the first few weeks.
Ruin half a millennium ago, but had by now been mostly resorbed by the earth.
I had thought him resorbed - clearly the resonance is stronger than we had believed.
Clinton described resorption during development: redundant neurons disappear, resorbed by the body, a process controlled by feedback control mechanisms using sensory data in part.
She ran to Timka who was a shuddering amorphous lump, all the scattered bits had been resorbed but the Min was in Chorinya, being wrenched through uncontrollable shifts.
He grunted as Lih, feeling neglected, climbed onto his leg and lay stretched out against his side like she used to do when she was still nursing from the bloodnipples he'd resorbed into his body now that she was weaned.
His meaning somehow got through, causing the Zang to retract its deputies, resorbing them into its body and pulling back sullenly.