Word
soaking up, n.
(chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid
<noun.process>
freq. cnt.: 4
freq. cnt.: 4
absorption
soaking up
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
absorb
absorb
semantic pointers
domain of synset (topic)
chemistry, chemical science
hypernym
sorption
hyponym
imbibition