Word.ws English Dictionary

sorbed

sorbed is the simple past and past participle of sorb.

Meaning of sorb

Verb

sorb (third-person singular simple present sorbs, present participle sorbing, simple past and past participle sorbed)

  1. To absorb or adsorb.
    • In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).1971, E. K. Duursma, M. G. Gross, Chapter Six: Marine Sediments and Radioactivity, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Oceanography Panel on Radioactivity in the Marine Environment...

See all 5 meanings of sorb

Questions about sorbed

What is sorbed the simple past and past participle of?
Sorbed is the simple past and past participle of sorb.

Words near sorbed in the dictionary

  1. sorbability
  2. sorbable
  3. sorbate
  4. sorbates
  5. Sorbdom
  6. sorbed
  7. sorbefacient
  8. sorbefacients
  9. Sorbello
  10. Sorbellos
  11. sorbent

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sorbed (page history and authors); sorb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sorbed.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sorbed. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.