Attract vs Absorbed - What's the difference?
attract | absorbed |
To pull toward without touching.
* Derham
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To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
* (John Milton)
Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.
Something that has been absorbed, taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.
(absorb)
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As verbs the difference between attract and absorbed
is that attract is to pull toward without touching while absorbed is (absorb).As an adjective absorbed is
fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed .attract
English
Verb
(en verb)- All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another.
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- Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.
