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RESORB
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Dictionary entry overview: What does resorb mean?
• RESORB (verb)
The verb RESORB has 1 sense:
1. undergo resorption
Familiarity information: RESORB used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they resorb ... he / she / it resorbs
Past simple: resorbed
Past participle: resorbed
-ing form: resorbing
... he / she / it resorbs Past simple: resorbed
Past participle: resorbed
-ing form: resorbing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Undergo resorption
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
reabsorb; resorb
Hypernyms (to "resorb" is one way to...):
absorb (become imbued)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
resorption (the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation)
Context examples
A concomitant process in which old bone is resorbed and new bone is formed.
(Bone Remodeling, NCI Thesaurus)
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