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Adjective: sorbed
  1. (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance
    "the sorbed oil mass"
    - occluded
Verb: sorb  sorb
  1. Take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
    - take up

See also: combined, sorbent, sorption

Type of: change state, turn

Encyclopedia: Sorb