sorbed

sorb ¹  (sôrb)

tr.v. sorbed, sorb·ing, sorbs

To take up and hold, as by absorption or adsorption.

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[Back-formation from absorb and adsorb.]

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sorba·bili·ty n.

sorba·ble adj.

sorbent adj. & n.

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sorb ²  (sôrb)

n.

1. Any of several Old World trees of the genus Sorbus in the rose family, as the service tree or the rowan.

2. The fruit of any of these plants.

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[French sorbe, sorb fruit, from Old French sourbe, from Vulgar Latin *sorba, from Latin sorbum.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

sorbed - (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance; "the sorbed oil mass"; "large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium" occluded combined - made or joined or united into one