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absorbed

adjective as in being completely occupied mentally

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And they also minimized the negative emotions they absorbed from their spouses.

When light enters our eye through the pupil and hits the retina, our visual system compares the amount of light absorbed by each of the three types of cone.

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You meet a range of people with different interests, but we always have that specialist subject, that we've absorbed like a sponge.

From BBC

The country performer’s stories about music are rife with the minute observations and historical tidbits absorbed and disseminated by die-hard fans.

They, too, have absorbed a great deal of pain in the last year.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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