absorb

If this progression continues, Dr. Thomas cautioned that the ocean's capacity to absorb carbon could be significantly reduced.

Title I is expected to shift to the Department of Labor, which is likely to absorb an unknown number of education workers with the necessary experience and expertise.

The thickness of his tall boots must have absorbed the blows, for the admiral did not seem to mind or even stop to acknowledge his tiny attacker.

Both the meal and the conversation had been a great deal to absorb, and she was feeling quite overstuffed, in head, heart, and tummy.

It also helped that I’d already been absorbed into the Space Task Group team, NASA’s first official effort to conquer space.