resorbent

adj

resorbent

adj

Etymology From Latin resorbens, present participle of resorbere.

1

swallowing up

Again resorbent ocean's wave / Demands the waters which it gave / From thousand rills with copious currents fraught.1760, Michael Wodhull, Ode to the Muses:

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