misabsorb

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verb

To absorb wrongly.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verbmisabsorb (third-person singular simple present misabsorbs, present participle misabsorbing, simple past and past participle misabsorbed)

present singular third person misabsorbs · participle present misabsorbing · participle past misabsorbed · past misabsorbed

  1. To absorb wrongly.

    Misabsorbed medicines from the upper GIT

    2019, Lokesh Thakur, Sushmita Rana, Amit Chaudhary, “Colon targeted drug delivery system–A novel perspective”, in International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology
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    Not surprisingly, some of the most influential of these interpreters—including Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Edmund Wilson, and Kenneth Burke—have operated outside the academy, for within that establishment Freud and his followers have frequently met the fate of other radical innovators: ignored or deplored by many, championed with narrow, even arrogant zeal by some, misabsorbed by nearly everyone after a while.

    1976, Albert E Stone, “Psychoanalysis and American Literary Culture”, in American Quarterly, volume 28, number 3, page 310

    A good majority of personality issues comes from aberrant experiences that are misabsorbed in one's psyche, leading to a lack of self-awareness and to self-doubt.

    2011, Dr. Eric Z. Shapira, A New Wrinkle: What I Learned from Older People Who Never Acted Their Age, page 22

Origin

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