In extended use. transitive. Chiefly with up: To swallow up, consume, absorb, take in (a person or thing). Obsolete.

transitive. To include or incorporate (a thing) so that it loses its separate existence; to assimilate; (now) esp. take control of (a smaller or…

To convert into a substance of its own nature, as the bodily organs convert food into blood, and thence into animal tissue; to take in and…

transferred and figurative. To absorb, swallow up. Obsolete.

transitive. To absorb.

transitive. Originally U.S. To assimilate (a radical social or political movement, or a person or thing associated with such a movement) into…