Misabsorb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To absorb wrongly.
"Not surprisingly, some of the most influential of these interpreters—including Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Edmund Wilson, and Kenneth Burke—have operated outside the academy, for within that establishment Freud and his followers have frequently met the fate of other radical innovators: ignored or deplored by many, championed with narrow, even arrogant zeal by some, misabsorbed by nearly everyone after a while."
Example
More examples"Not surprisingly, some of the most influential of these interpreters—including Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Edmund Wilson, and Kenneth Burke—have operated outside the academy, for within that establishment Freud and his followers have frequently met the fate of other radical innovators: ignored or deplored by many, championed with narrow, even arrogant zeal by some, misabsorbed by nearly everyone after a while."
Etymology
From mis- + absorb.
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