Usually means: Absorb or soak up liquid.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sorb, sorb: Merriam-Webster
  2. Sorb, sorb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Sorb, sorb, sorb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sorb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sorb: Vocabulary.com
  6. sorb: Wordnik
  7. Sorb, sorb: Wiktionary
  8. sorb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sorb: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sorb: Dictionary.com
  11. Sorb, sorb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Sorb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Sorb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. sorb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. sorb: Rhymezone
  16. Sorb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. sorb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. sorb: FreeDictionary.org
  19. sorb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Sorb: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sorb-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sorb: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sorb: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. sorb: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SORB: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sorb: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sorbability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Sorb)

noun:  The service tree, Sorbus domestica.
noun:  Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
noun:  The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.
verb:  (chemistry) To absorb or adsorb.
noun:  A member of a Slavic people living in Lusatia in eastern Germany.

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