Definition of "reabsorb" []

• To absorb again. (verb-transitive)
• To accommodate or accept again, as into a group or category: The economy cannot reabsorb all of the refugees into the workforce. (verb-transitive)
• To undergo resorption. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And on days like after the dance recital, when you've been divorced five years and your kid sometimes still reels, let the hot adrenaline sent to fix the pain -- fix the pain my child is in, reabsorb."
• "Recent employment growth in the G-20 is already insufficient to reabsorb a 20-million-job shortfall from the previous economic downturn, Mr. Scarpetta said."
• "The Fed can reverse this process, letting its bond portfolio mature and the private sector smoothly reabsorb the debt by drawing down the excess reserves it has on deposit at the Fed."