reabsorb
Americanverb (used with object)
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It sets off a series of cellular events that move water channels to the cell surface, allowing the kidneys to reabsorb water and concentrate urine.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
The herbivorous marsupial can also reabsorb water from the colon and produce more concentrated urine to preserve hydration, or allow its body temperature to fluctuate with the environment in a process known as heterothermy.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Most other mammals simply reabsorb it into their bodies if it goes unused in a given cycle.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
The caffeine-free water is then returned to the beans to reabsorb the coffee flavors and aromas.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2023
After an interruption he could instantly reabsorb himself in his work, so that his study was not kept as a place sacred to peace and quiet.
From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Sir Francis Darwin
It carries serotonin into the cell so the chemical can be reabsorbed and recycled.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Because the shrimp are so small, it takes only a minute to see the salt drawing moisture out of the shrimp, then dissolving on the surface into a concentrated brine, which then is reabsorbed.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
It can also be reabsorbed, which in excess can cause jaundice, which is when a person’s skin and eyes become yellow.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2024
Instead the impinging electrons release “virtual” photons, so called because they scarcely exist at all: these photons are reabsorbed by the quarks almost as fast as they are emitted.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2023
Your body has apparently reabsorbed some of the pee or something because you don’t have to go as bad, but you would like to freshen up, as they say.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
In reabsorbing Spirit, Boeing would be seeking to rescue and restructure a troubled but important partner that has been battered by years of losses and quality control problems.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
And even though they were receiving fluids, their bodies were not reabsorbing electrolytes And it turned out, that of the dozen or so patients that came in...
From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2021
If being sliced in half is just an off week, creating and reabsorbing an anus dozens of times per day may not be such a big deal.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2021
A year later, they started reabsorbing their eggs.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2010
Never can there be a full return to healthy national life until means have been found for reabsorbing these and other incipient schismatic organizations into the unity of the Great Society.
From Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government by F. J. C. (Fossey John Cobb) Hearnshaw
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