#to absorb

• To absorb — To encompass, incorporate, or retain a substance, liquid, energy, or, figuratively, to completely capture someone's attention, resources, or identity. In moral philosophy and ontology, the verb describes the process by which a dominant ideological system, community, or supreme duty completely assimilates a subject's individuality, dissolving their ethical autonomy and integrating them into a larger collective structure.
• To absorb — 1. To encompass, incorporate, assimilate, or suck in a substance, energy, or liquid. 2. Figuratively: to completely capture someone's attention, interest, or time; to plunge someone into a state of deep meditation. 3. In ontology and ethics, the action whereby a community, a supreme ideology, or a chronic moral duty completely assimilates a subject's individuality, dissolving their autonomy and integrating them organically into its own value structure.