Difference between Absorb and Engulf

ABSORB vs ENGULF: VERB

To retain (radiation or sound, for example) wholly, without reflection or transmission.
To take in; assimilate.
To learn; acquire.
To receive (an impulse) without echo or recoil.
To assume or pay for (a cost or costs).
To endure; accommodate.
To use up; consume.
To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.
To take up or occupy (one's time or interest, for example).
To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.
To occupy the attention, interest, or time of; engross: : engross.
To take (something) in through or as through pores or interstices.
To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.

To drink in; suck up; imbibe, as a sponge; take in by absorption, as the lacteals of the body; hence, to take up or receive in, as by chemical or molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases.
To swallow up; engulf; overwhelm: as, the sea absorbed the wreck.
To swallow up the identity or individuality of; draw in as a constituent part; incorporate: as, the empire absorbed all the small states.
To engross or engage wholly.
In medicine, to counteract or neutralize: as, magnesia absorbs acidity in the stomach.

To cast into or as into a gulf.
To swallow up in or as in a gulf or whirlpool; overwhelm by swallowing or submerging.

Sop up, Take up, Soak up, Plunge, Draw, Steep, Engage, Engross, Occupy, Engulf, Immerse, Imbibe, Ingest, Suck, Assimilate

Kiss, Cover, Burning, Push, Burn, Swamp, Affect, Encompass, Ignite, Overwhelm, Steep, Engross, Absorb, Plunge, Immerse

Take over, Suck up, Sop up, Take up, Soak up, Plunge, Draw, Steep, Engross, Occupy, Engulf, Imbibe, Ingest, Suck, Assimilate

Ravage, Erupt, Dive, Kiss, Cover, Burning, Push, Burn, Swamp, Affect, Ignite, Overwhelm, Steep, Engross, Plunge

They are like sponges and will absorb water.
Reaper Scythe to absorb multiple mobs at once.
It is a lot of material to absorb.
There is a ton of material to absorb.
Where is the best place to absorb blood?
First, the gas molecules absorb and scatter radiation, and second, clouds and small particles scatter, absorb, and emit radiation.
Fat and carbohydrates are pretty easy for your body to digest and absorb, but protein takes more energy to digest and absorb.
Important to absorb the number of pooled land back to absorb the policy is too.
It might only take solid wood one minute to absorb the same amount of stain that veneer required two minutes to absorb.
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