Synonyms of the word

absorb

• v. (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
• v. (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically…
• v. (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it, as.
• v. (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
• v. (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
• v. (transitive) Assimilate mentally.
• v. (transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
• v. (transitive) To defray the costs.
• v. (transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.

acquire

• v. (transitive) To get.
• v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
• v. (medicine) To contract.
• v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

assimilate

• v. To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
• v. To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind.
• v. To absorb a group of people into a community.
• v. To compare a thing to something similar.
• v. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
• n. Something that is or has been assimilated.

blend

• n. A mixture of two or more things.
• n. (linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.
• v. (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
• v. (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.
• v. (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

center

• n. The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
• n. The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
• n. The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
• n. (geometry) The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
• n. (geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates…
• n. A place where some function or activity occurs.
• n. A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
• n. (basketball) The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
• n. (ice hockey) The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the…
• n. (American football, Canadian football) The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
• n. (netball) A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
• n. (soccer) A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
• n. (rugby) One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside…
• n. (architecture) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position…
• n. (engineering) One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about…
• n. (engineering) A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point…
• n. (politics) The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
• adj. Of, at, or related to a center.
• v. (transitive) To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
• v. (transitive) To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway…
• v. (transitive) To give (something) a central basis.
• v. (intransitive) To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
• v. (engineering) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

centre

• n. (British spelling, Canadian, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of…
• v. (British spelling, Canadian, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of…

coalesce

• v. (of separate elements) To join into a single mass or whole.
• v. (of a whole or a unit) To form from different pieces or elements.
• v. (engineering) To bond pieces of metal into a continuous whole by liquefying parts of each piece, bringing…

combine

• v. (transitive) To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
• v. (transitive) To have two or more things or properties that function together.
• v. (intransitive) To come together; to unite.
• v. (card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number…
• v. (obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
• n. A combine harvester.
• n. A combination.

commingle

• v. (transitive) To mix, to blend.
• v. (intransitive) To become mixed or blended.

concentrate

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather…
• v. To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting…
• v. To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
• v. (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
• n. A substance that is in a condensed form.

conflate

• v. To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.
• v. To mix together different elements.
• v. To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
• adj. (biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
• n. (biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

engage

• v. (heading, transitive) To interact socially.
• v. (heading) To interact antagonistically.
• v. (heading) To interact contractually.
• v. (heading) To interact mechanically.
• v. (intransitive) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).

engross

• v. (transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized…
• v. (transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity…
• v. (transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially…
• v. (transitive) To completely engage the attention of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
• v. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
• v. (obsolete) To amass.

engulf

• v. (transitive) To overwhelm.
• v. (transitive) To surround; to cover.

flux

• n. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
• n. A state of ongoing change.
• n. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
• n. (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically…
• n. (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
• n. (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
• n. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
• v. To use flux.
• v. To melt.
• v. To flow as a liquid.
• adj. (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

focus

• n. (countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
• n. (countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.
• n. (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
• n. (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic…
• n. (uncountable) Concentration of attention.
• n. (countable, seismology) The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath…
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) The indicator of the currently active element in a user interface.
• n. (linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.
• v. (transitive) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.
• v. (transitive) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the…
• v. (transitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention.
• v. (intransitive) To concentrate one’s attention.
• v. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so…

fund

• n. A sum or source of money.
• n. An organization managing such money.
• n. A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
• n. A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
• v. (transitive) To pay for.

fuse

• n. (also fuze in US) A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
• n. (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.
• n. A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit.
• n. Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.
• n. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even…
• n. A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
• v. (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
• v. (intransitive) To melt together.
• v. To furnish with or install a fuse.
• v. (organic chemistry) To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that…

imbibe

• v. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
• v. (figuratively) To take in; absorb.

immerse

• v. (transitive) To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.
• v. (transitive) To involve deeply.
• v. (mathematics) Map into an immersion.
• adj. (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.

immix

• v. To mix or blend.

ingest

• v. To take into the body, as for digestion.

interest

• n. (uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in…
• n. (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
• n. (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
• n. (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other…
• n. (countable) Something one is interested in.
• n. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
• n. (usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
• v. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person…
• v. (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
• v. (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.

invite

• v. (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To request formally.
• v. (transitive) To encourage.
• v. (transitive) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
• n. (informal) An invitation.

larn

• v. (Northern England) especially (Geordie) To teach or to learn.

learn

• v. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
• v. To attend a course or other educational activity.
• v. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
• v. To be studying.
• v. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
• v. (now only in slang and dialects) To teach.

meld

• v. (US) to combine two similar objects into one.
• v. In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.
• n. A combination of cards which is melded.

merge

• v. (transitive) To combine into a whole.
• v. (intransitive) To combine into a whole.
• v. To blend gradually into something else.
• n. A joining together of two flows.

mix

• v. To stir two or more substances together.
• v. To combine items from two or more sources normally kept separate.
• v. To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.
• v. To use a mixer (machine) on.
• v. (music) To combine several tracks.
• v. (music) To produce a finished version of a recording.
• v. To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
• n. The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
• n. The result of combining items normally kept separate.
• n. (music) The result of mixing several tracks.
• n. (music) The finished version of a recording.

occupy

• v. (transitive) To take or use time.
• v. (transitive) To take or use space.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
• v. (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.

plunge

• n. the act of plunging or submerging.
• n. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
• n. (dated) A swimming pool.
• n. (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
• n. (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
• n. (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or…
• v. (transitive) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
• v. (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
• v. (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.

pore

• n. A tiny opening in the skin.
• n. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a…
• v. to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
• v. to meditate or reflect in a steady way.

receive

• v. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
• v. To take possession of.
• v. To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence,…
• v. To incur (an injury).
• v. To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
• v. (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
• v. (sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.
• n. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.

rivet

• n. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and…
• n. (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
• n. (obsolete) A light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from almain-rivet).
• v. (transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.
• v. (transitive) To install rivets.
• v. (transitive) To command the attention of.

sorb

• n. The wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis) of Europe.
• n. The rowan tree.
• n. The fruit of either of these trees.
• v. (chemistry) To absorb or adsorb.

steep

• adj. Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
• adj. (informal) expensive.
• adj. (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
• adj. (of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To soak an item (or to be soaked) in liquid in order to gradually add or remove…
• v. (intransitive) To imbue with something.
• n. A liquid used in a steeping process.
• n. A rennet bag.

suck

• n. An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
• n. (vulgar) Fellatio of a penis.
• n. (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who won't go along, especially out of spite; a crybaby…
• n. A sycophant, especially a child.
• v. (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
• v. (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
• v. (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
• v. (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
• v. (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb…
• v. (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used…