The car bumper absorbed some of the impact.
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Absorbed
//æbˈsɔɹbd//
Synonyms for "absorbed" (99 found)
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2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
8 entriesderived from
1 entriesform of
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 15 languages.
Bengali
1 entries- মশগুল adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 專心 /专心 adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
Czech
2 entries- pohlcený adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
- pohlcený adj (taken in by a body without reflection)
Dutch
4 entries- geabsorbeerd adj (taken in by a body without reflection)
- geabsorbeerd adj (taken by through the pores of a surface)
- inbeslaggenomen adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
- opgenomen adj (taken in by a body without reflection)
Esperanto
1 entries- absorbita adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
Finnish
4 entries- absorboitunut adj (taken in by a body without reflection)
- imeytynyt adj (taken by through the pores of a surface)
- syventynyt adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
- uppoutunut adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
French
2 entries- absorbé adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
- captivé adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
German
1 entries- vertieft adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
Hindi
4 entries- अवशोषित adj (taken in by a body without reflection)
- अवशोषित adj (taken by through the pores of a surface)
- तल्लीन adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
- मगन adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
Japanese
1 entries- 夢中になる adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
Occitan
3 entries- absorbit adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
- pensatiu adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
- perpensatiu adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
Portuguese
4 entries- absorto adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
- absorto adj (taken by through the pores of a surface)
- absorvido adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
- absorvido adj (taken in by a body without reflection)
Romanian
4 entries- absorbit adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
- absorbit adj (taken in by a body without reflection)
- absorbit adj (taken by through the pores of a surface)
- captivat adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
Russian
4 entries- впи́танный adj (taken by through the pores of a surface)
- поглощённый adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
- поглощённый adj (taken in by a body without reflection)
- увлечённый adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
Spanish
4 entries- absorbido adj (taken in by a body without reflection)
- absorbido adj (taken by through the pores of a surface)
- absorto adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
- ensimismado adj (fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Tom got so absorbed in his work that he forgot to eat.
Source: tatoeba (37127)
The empire absorbed all the small states.
Source: tatoeba (44969)
The little girl was absorbed in reading a fairy tale.
Source: tatoeba (46480)
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