What is "be absorbed by"

Usage examples of "be absorbed by".

Those constraints are going to cause most of the Navy, Air Force, Marines and elite Army to be absorbed by the Federation forces.

It was not enough to protect them from a direct hit, but a glancing blow that would kill or at least incapacitate an unprotected Klingon or human would be absorbed by the armor.

Now on the summit of the cliffs he looked down into the circular valley and wondered what plague, war or superstition had driven the members of that ancient race forth from their stronghold to mingle with and be absorbed by the tribes that hemmed them in.

Not a thermal exactly, but I thought if I could just get us shallow enough then detonate a couple of torpedoes, part of the shock wave would be absorbed by the black hole itself and the rest ought to blast us clear.

But I found out that Conselline Sept has major investments in development companies, and their projections for the rate at which excess population can be absorbed by development make no sense—.

He seemed to see and hear nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some depressing and unsolved problem.

Spells or item effects that are barriers to magic are immune to spellfire fire or blast destruction but can be absorbed by a spellfire user.

I would normally have used the cat-gut sutures for internal work like this, as those would gradually dissolve and be absorbed by the body.