reabsorb

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REABSORB', verb transitive [re and absorb.] 1. To draw in or inbibe again what has been effused, extravasated or thrown off; used of fluids; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, blood, gas, etc. 2. To swallow up again.
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