Synonym: engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting. Similar words: absorb, absorbed, be absorbed in, absorption, forbidding, harbinger, disturbing, disturbingly. Meaning: [-bɪŋ] adj. capable of arousing and holding the attention.
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31. A playground and playhouse keep the tots happy while the teenagers have a ball with a whole host of absorbing activities.
32. The scene might have been absorbing had I not been fighting to keep control of the wheelbarrow.
33. Inner fabric: ripstop nylon, coated with Scotchguard to help prevent the fabric from absorbing water.
34. In an absorbing book about how she learned to fly, Diane Ackerman tells why she chooses to risk her life.
35. He found it addictive, stimulating, endlessly absorbing, and he allowed nothing-certainly no personal involvements - to distract him.
36. He spent much of his time mediating disputes and absorbing the free-floating rage that the Standing had unleashed.
37. He must be distracted from long range dangers by absorbing his mind in temporary pleasures.
38. They have no gills, but obtain their oxygen by absorbing it through the skin of their body and greatly enlarged tails.
39. The Polled Lincoln Red is now absorbing the horned type.
40. It adds, it will be absorbing for all those with a general interest in the subject.
41. In tests at Linkoping University the paint removed around 80 percent of smelly chemicals - absorbing them through tiny pores.
42. However, time passed pleasantly enough, chatting to other members of my group and absorbing the atmosphere of the building.
43. Capital then emerges again more efficient, but concentrated in larger firms the successful absorbing the weak.
44. But Mr Mugabe wants resettlement to be efficient, too, and is absorbing the Musengezi lesson.
45. But Bakker in reply says cartilage is in fact better for absorbing shocks and for building up hydrostatic pressure.
46. At the same time others may, through overfunding, be absorbing an unfair amount of scarce resources. 2.
47. You need to be very patient while they are absorbing the facts, perhaps over several days or weeks.
48. Absorbing Costs Self-defeating techniques yield consequences that most organizations would just as soon not deal with.
49. Because the diamond is absorbing blue light, it appears yellow in ordinary light.
50. The inner has been lightly coated with Scotchgard, which helps to prevent the fabric from absorbing water.
51. Such materials char and melt, rapidly absorbing and dissipating energy as they do so.
52. The foam is lightweight but loses much of its shock absorbing value after about 300 miles of wear and tear.
53. He wanted to instill the habit of absorbing information; he wanted them to build up a storehouse of knowledge.
54. If other absorbing products or intermediates occur there will be no isosbestic point.
55. After sixteen years of fishing for zander I still find it a magical absorbing pastime.
56. Look back to 1910 and the first explosion of interest in scientific management and you see field after field absorbing its message.
57. The couple still maintain close links with local schools, where they spend hours researching, sketching and absorbing jokes.
58. Something seemed to be absorbing the bright ultraviolet glow in dark spots 25 to 50 miles wide.
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59. The delicate question of which divinity is absorbing which is not always clear.
60. Deliberately he walked into the minefield, triggering off every mine and thus absorbing in his own body the entire explosion.
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