"absorb" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

absorb verbo

absorb + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 77
absorb energy • absorb water • absorb light • absorb heat • absorb losses • absorb moisture • ability to absorb • absorb radiation • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 17
(6) shock, word, impact, bump
Kolokacji: 4
(7) cost, damage
Kolokacji: 2
(8) sound, refugee, odor
Kolokacji: 3
(13) percent, bullet
Kolokacji: 2
(14) sweat, element, perspiration
Kolokacji: 3
(15) thousands, deal, billions
Kolokacji: 3
1. absorb thousands = wchłoń tysiące absorb thousands
2. absorb a deal = znieś transakcję absorb a deal
3. absorb billions = wchłoń miliardy absorb billions
  • And to maintain the same amount of productive capital equipment per worker, the economy had to increase the stock of capital one-fifth - an effort that absorbed hundreds of billions of dollars.
  • Leveraged buyouts, in which management joins with outside investors, have absorbed billions of dollars of "junk bond" financing in recent years.
  • Even with the changes in Congress's bill, the legislation calls on private plans to absorb tens of billions in reductions in anticipated annual Government payments.
  • Theoretically the niling effect could absorb billions of kilowatt hours before reaching saturation point.
  • Doctors would absorb billions in losses in projected income, according to Congressional estimates.
  • But the appeal is wearing thin for German and Japanese bankers, who have been forced to absorb tens of billions of dollars in the last few months.
  • The powerful new plague absorbed the complete attention of the scientific establishment and billions of dollars.
  • Although the Fresh Kills landfill has absorbed billions of New Yorkers' least-wanted items, it occasionally gets their most cherished possessions.
  • The industry has absorbed billions of dollars in cost overruns and the armed forces have been forced to kill weapons that they still consider essential.
  • And there is no good reason to believe that the consumer sector could absorb billions of rubles more without active, well-functioning markets to manage the transformation.
(16) town, village
Kolokacji: 2
(17) toxin, medication
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + absorb
Kolokacji: 4
try to absorb • help absorb • seem to absorb • begin absorbing
absorb + preposición
Kolokacji: 22
absorbed into • absorbed by • absorbed through • absorbed in • absorb from • ...
absorb + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 51
completely absorbed • later absorbed • easily absorbed • fully absorbed • quickly absorbed • ...

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