Meanings
adjectiveresorbent (comparative more resorbent, superlative most resorbent)
comparative more resorbent · superlative most resorbent
- 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
Origin
- Latinresorbens
- Englishresorbent
From Latin resorbens, present participle of resorbere.
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resorbent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resorbent
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