6 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
verb become imbued
verb take up mentally
verb take up, as of debts or payments
originFrom Middle French absorber, from Old French assorbir, from Latin absorbeō (“swallow up”), from ab- (“from”) + sorbeō (“suck in, swallow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ- (“to sip”). Compare French absorber.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0