Usually means: Takes in or soaks up.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word absorbs:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. absorbs: Merriam-Webster
  2. absorbs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. absorbs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Absorbs, absorbs: Wordnik
  5. absorbs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. absorbs: Wiktionary
  7. absorbs: Dictionary.com
  8. absorbs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. absorbs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. absorbs: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. absorbs: Legal dictionary
  3. absorbs: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absorbs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. absorbs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. absorbs: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absorbs: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (absorb)

verb:  (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
verb:  (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
verb:  (intransitive) To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
verb:  (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it.
verb:  (transitive, physics) in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
verb:  (transitive, physics) in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
verb:  (transitive, physics) taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
verb:  (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
verb:  (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
verb:  (transitive) To assimilate mentally.
verb:  (transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
verb:  (transitive) To defray the costs.
verb:  (transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.
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