Absorb vs. Reabsorb — What's the Difference?

Take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action

To absorb again.

Take up the attention of (someone); interest greatly

To accommodate or accept again, as into a group or category

To take (something) in through or as through pores or interstices.

To undergo resorption.

To occupy the attention, interest, or time of; engross

To absorb again.

To take up or occupy (one's time or interest, for example).

To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; - used esp. of fluids.

To retain (radiation or sound, for example) wholly, without reflection or transmission.

Undergo resorption

To take in; assimilate

To learn; acquire

To receive (an impulse) without echo or recoil

To assume or pay for (a cost or costs).

To endure; accommodate

To use up; consume

(transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.

To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.

(transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.

(intransitive) To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.

To take in energy and convert it.

In receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.

In receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.

Taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.

(transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.

(transitive) To occupy or consume time.

(transitive) To assimilate mentally.

To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.

(transitive) To defray the costs.

(transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.

To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.

To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.

To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.

Become imbued;

Take up mentally;

Take up, as of debts or payments;

Take in, also metaphorically;

Cause to become one with;

Suck or take up or in;

Engross (oneself) fully;

Assimilate or take in;

Engage or engross wholly;