REABSORB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reabsorb mean? 

• REABSORB (verb)
  The verb REABSORB has 1 sense:

1. undergo resorption

  Familiarity information: REABSORB used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REABSORB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reabsorb    ... he / she / it reabsorbs   
Past simple: reabsorbed   
Past participle: reabsorbed   
-ing form: reabsorbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Undergo resorption

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

reabsorb; resorb

Hypernyms (to "reabsorb" is one way to...):

absorb (become imbued)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

reabsorption (the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation)

 Context examples 

It filters the blood to reabsorb useful materials and remove waste as urine.

(Glomerulus, NCI Dictionary)

The collecting tube acts to reabsorb sodium and water while secreting potassium and maintaining acid-base homeostasis.

(Collecting Tube, NCI Thesaurus)

Sodium transport across the tight epithelia of Na+ reabsorbing tissues such as the distal part of the kidney nephron and colon is the major factor determining total-body Na+ levels, and thus, long-term blood pressure.

(Aldosterone-Regulated Sodium Reabsorption Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

This strange, wild story seemed to have come to us from amid the mad elements—blown in upon us like a sheet of sea-weed in a gale—and now to have been reabsorbed by them once more.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)