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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The heat had not dissipated; instead the nerve had reabsorbed most of it, also within a few thousandths of a second.
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Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
Then, as the tail end of the shock wave passes, a few thousandths of a second later, the membrane would revert to a fluid state, reabsorbing the heat.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
The bulk of non-Russians in the former Soviet borderlands want less and less to do with their former overlord and certainly do not want to be reabsorbed by it.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
Earth emits and reabsorbs hundreds of billions of metric tons of CO2 annually through natural processes, according to the Global Carbon Budget.
—USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
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Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
Then, as the tail end of the shock wave passes, a few thousandths of a second later, the membrane would revert to a fluid state, reabsorbing the heat.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
The bulk of non-Russians in the former Soviet borderlands want less and less to do with their former overlord and certainly do not want to be reabsorbed by it.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
Earth emits and reabsorbs hundreds of billions of metric tons of CO2 annually through natural processes, according to the Global Carbon Budget.
—USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
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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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