Definition of "absorbed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of absorb. (verb)

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• "But he was absorbed by his death -- _absorbed_ as though he would tear the secret of it from the body that looked suddenly so empty, and so meaningless."
• "Just over a year later the title absorbed Lady Penelope comic, by then simply known as Penelope, and it continued on until December 1973 when it was amalgamated into the magazine Pink."
• "Now I think the other part of what you are asking, though, is we do have a significant amount of what we call absorbed gas."