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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
REABSORB', v.t. [re and absorb.]
1. To draw in or inbibe again what has been effused, extravasated or thrown off; used of fluids; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, blood, gas, etc.
2. To swallow up again.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
v
1: undergo resorption [syn: reabsorb, resorb]
Merriam Webster's
transitive verb Date: circa 1774 to take up (something previously secreted or emitted)< sugars reabsorbed in the kidney >;also resorb 2
Oxford Reference Dictionary
v.tr. absorb again. Derivatives: reabsorption n.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Reabsorb Re`ab*sorb", v. t. 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.
