misabsorbing
misabsorbing is the present participle and gerund of misabsorb.
Meaning of misabsorb
Verb
misabsorb (third-person singular simple present misabsorbs, present participle misabsorbing, simple past and past participle misabsorbed)
- To absorb wrongly.
- Not surprisingly, some of the most influential of these interpreters—including Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Edmund Wilson, and Kenneth Burke—have operated outside the academy, for within that establishment Freud and his followers have frequently met the fate of other radical innovators: ignored or...1976, Albert E Stone, “Psychoanalysis and American Literary Culture”, in American Quarterly, volume 28, number 3, page 310
Questions about misabsorbing
- What is misabsorbing the present participle and gerund of?
- Misabsorbing is the present participle and gerund of misabsorb.
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