Crossword-Solution: ABSORBENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Absorbent | a. | Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. |
| Absorbent | n. | Anything which absorbs. |
| Absorbent | n. | Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts. |
| Absorbent | n. | The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “ABSORBENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Able to soak up | 1 answer |
| Able to soak up liquid easily | 1 answer |
| FLUID attracting substance | 1 answer |
| Like paper towels | 1 answer |
| having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something | 1 answer |
| permeable | 4 answers |
| Drier | 5 answers |
| spongy | 6 answers |
| Sponge | 42 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ABSORBENT (5)
This paper was very poor with thick spots, more absorbent than other parts, and consequently made dark shades in the picture where they should not have been; but it was enough to convince me that I had succeeded, and that at some future time, when I had the means and a more extensive knowledge of chemistry, I could apply myself to it again.
Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.
After plugging the nares thoroughly with absorbent cotton dusted with tannic acid he was surprised to see the blood ooze out around the eyelids and trickle down the cheeks.
Nor do I even observe that the man in charge of the ship’s lamps, who in right of his office has a double allowance of poisoned chalices, seems thereby vastly degraded, even though he empties the chalices into himself, one after the other, much as if he were delivering their contents at some absorbent establishment in which he had no personal interest.
Already, the absorbent capacity of the Roman Church had drawn to itself that sympathetic side of his character which was also one of its strongest sides.
Quotes with ABSORBENT (3)
An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to the side of a church like a barnacle to a rock. I think of this house clamped to the side of Tinker Creek as an anchor-hold. It holds me at anchor to the rock bottom of the creek itself and keeps me steadied in the current, as a sea anchor does, facing the stream of light pouring down. It’s a good place to live; there’s a lot to think about. The creeks are an active mystery, fres…
Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2014).