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Reabsorb

Reabsorb \Re`ab*sorb"\ (r[=e]`[a^]b*s[^o]rb"), v. t. To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids.

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reabsorb

vb. absorb again

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reabsorb

v. undergo resorption [syn: resorb]

Usage examples of "reabsorb".

When this happens, water is not properly reabsorbed in the kidney tubules and urination becomes abnormally copious.

But how could they possibly make enough rafts to accommodate all of them in the time left before the conversion of Cincinnati, when it would, essentially, reboot and try to reabsorb them?

About a pint or more is secreted daily, but much of this is reabsorbed into the bloodstream and circulates back to the liver, to be again excreted, and so on.

Now the membrane was reabsorbed, and the ship ran stern-first, so the reef would work against their velocity.

As soon as it had reabsorbed some of these projections, new ones appeared in their place.

Most of it has been reabsorbed by now, but I find evidence of a great deal more trauma than is consistent with the extent of the wound.

It was outside the universe of atoms, beneath the wayward play of nuclear interaction forces, having been reabsorbed into the implicate order itself.

All around her, the atmosphere crackled, popped, boomed and thundered with the resultant explosions as immeasurable positive forces recombined and all the previously expended energy was reabsorbed.

Most other female mammals simply reabsorb their endometria, why should dark ages humans have to be different?

The fertilised egg did not develop any further, but neither was it necessarily flushed away or reabsorbed.

Reger told me that Landru has already regained control of all Lawgivers and that people who need to be reabsorbed are being rounded up.

But not only the extraordinary flowering of Mahayana and Vajrayana rests on Nagarjuna's shoulders: his dialectic was a major influence on Shankara, Vedanta's greatest philosopher-sage (Ramana Maharshi being one of Shankara's many descendants), and Shankara's Nondual (Advaita) Vedanta revolutionized all of subsequent Indian philosophy/religion (so similar was it in many respects to Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka that Buddhism simply died out in India, being almost, as it were, reabsorbed in essentials back into Hinduism).

He did not seriously resist the idea, presented to him every so often in those talks, that perhaps Castalian culture was merely a secularized and transitory offshoot of Christian culture in its Occidental form, which would some day be reabsorbed by its parent.

He made a mental note, one that was carefully shielded from the synaptic connections that would have let the subassembler nodes in on it, to reabsorb this balancesheet and begin growing a new one.