absorbs

verb

• 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.
• To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
• To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
• To take in energy and convert it, as

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

• To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully
• To occupy or consume time.
• Assimilate mentally.
• To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
• To defray the costs.
• To accept or purchase in quantity.