Crossword-Solution: ABSORB 6 letters, 136 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Absorb v. t. To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to
disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
Absorb v. t. To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as
the lacteals of the body.
Absorb v. t. To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as,
absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.
Absorb v. t. To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular
action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity
are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.

We have 136 clues for the answer “ABSORB”

Clue Answers
Act like a sponge 1 answer
Be like a sponge 1 answer
Emulate a sponge 1 answer
Engross wholly. 1 answer
Hold with rapt attention 1 answer
Learn really quickly 1 answer
Muffle, as shock 1 answer
Soak up like a sponge 1 answer
Sop up 1 answer
Sponges do it 1 answer
Successfully study 1 answer
Suck up, as a sponge 1 answer
Suck up, like a sponge 1 answer
Swallow, as costs 1 answer
Take in fully 1 answer
Take in moisture. 1 answer
Take in, as a shock 1 answer
Take in, as knowledge 1 answer
Take up, as liquid 1 answer
Totally involve 1 answer
What paper towels do 1 answer
Work like a sponge 1 answer
Work like paper towels 1 answer
Work well, as kitchen towels 1 answer
consume all of one's attention or time 1 answer
to soak it in 1 answer
Blot up. 2 answers
Interest greatly. 2 answers
Learn well 2 answers
Soak up liquid 2 answers
Take in liquids 2 answers
Take up, in a way 2 answers
Take, as a loss 2 answers
Hold the interest of 3 answers
Internalize 3 answers
Involve deeply 3 answers
Sponge (up) 3 answers
infibulate 3 answers
Occupy completely 4 answers
Gather in 5 answers
Soak in 5 answers
Suck up 5 answers
Swallow up 6 answers
Use a paper towel 6 answers
pass in 6 answers
Lap (up) 7 answers
Suck in 7 answers
Suck-up 7 answers
suck 7 answers
BECOME like 8 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with ABSORB (5)

GDP growth in 1985-89 averaged about 4%, somewhat short of the more than 5% rate needed to absorb the 2.3 million workers annually entering the labor force.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
Quantum bogodynamics is most often invoked to explain the sharp increase in hardware and software failures in the presence of suits; the latter emit bogons, which the former absorb.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
GDP growth in 1985-91 averaged about 6%, quite impressive, but not sufficient to both slash underemployment and absorb the 2.3 million workers annually entering the labor force.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
Photographs fade, bric-a-brac gets lost, busts of Wagner get broken, but once you absorb a Bayreuth-restaurant meal it is your possession and your property until the time comes to embalm the rest of you.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Real GDP growth in 1985-92 averaged about 6%, quite impressive, but not sufficient to both slash underemployment and absorb the 2.3 million workers annually entering the labor force.
The 1993 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993

Quotes with ABSORB (3)

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in…
Bob Marley
Don't Just Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live.
Roy T. Bennett The Light in the Heart
When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do…
Hermann Hesse Siddhartha
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 119 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).