Helen Fenton

Absorb: Definition and part of speech

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Absorb

  1. v. t. To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.
  2. v. t. To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
  3. v. t. To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.
  4. v. t. To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Absolve: Definition and part of speech

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Absolve

  1. v. t. To resolve or explain.
  2. v. t. To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.
  3. v. t. To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); — said of the sin or guilt.
  4. v. t. To finish; to accomplish.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.