absorb

To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.

Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all.

In some countries, the large cities absorb the wealth and fashion of the nation; they are the only fixed abodes of elegant and intelligent society, and the country is inhabited almost entirely by boorish peasantry.

To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.

to be absorpt, or swallowed up, in a lake of fire and brimstone.

To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.

To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.

The drops of water slowly absorbed into the dry sponge.

To take in energy and convert it.

Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass.