reabsorb
verb
re·ab·sorb
ˌrē-əb-ˈsȯrb 
-ˈzȯrb
reabsorbed; reabsorbing; reabsorbs
: to take up (something previously secreted or emitted)
sugars reabsorbed in the kidney
also
: resorb sense 2
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Having made her home in the U.K. for more than two decades, Anderson has not so much been embraced as a transplant as she has been reabsorbed, shape-shifting from a Midwesterner back into a Londoner.
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Some monozygotic triplets are actually quadruplets where one embryo has vanished or been reabsorbed.
—Pamela Prindle Fierro, Parents, 22 July 2024
By returning carbon-laden clippings to the turf, the carbon is quickly reabsorbed and sequestered, reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2024
The heat had not dissipated; instead the nerve had reabsorbed most of it, also within a few thousandths of a second.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Some monozygotic triplets are actually quadruplets where one embryo has vanished or been reabsorbed.
—Pamela Prindle Fierro, Parents, 22 July 2024
By returning carbon-laden clippings to the turf, the carbon is quickly reabsorbed and sequestered, reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2024
The heat had not dissipated; instead the nerve had reabsorbed most of it, also within a few thousandths of a second.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
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reabsorb
transitive verb
re·ab·sorb
ˌrē-əb-ˈsȯ(ə)rb, -ˈzȯ(ə)rb
: to take up (something previously secreted or emitted)
sugars reabsorbed in the kidney
also
: resorb
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