misabsorb

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ absorb.

Verb

misabsorb (third-person singular simple present misabsorbs, present participle misabsorbing, simple past and past participle misabsorbed)

  1. To absorb wrongly.
    • 1976, Albert E Stone, “Psychoanalysis and American Literary Culture”, in American Quarterly, volume 28, number 3, page 310:
      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 deplored by many, championed with narrow, even arrogant zeal by some, misabsorbed by nearly everyone after a while.
    • 2011, Dr. Eric Z. Shapira, A New Wrinkle: What I Learned from Older People Who Never Acted Their Age, page 22:
      A good majority of personality issues comes from aberrant experiences that are misabsorbed in one's psyche, leading to a lack of self-awareness and to self-doubt.
    • 2019, Lokesh Thakur, Sushmita Rana, Amit Chaudhary, “Colon targeted drug delivery system–A novel perspective”, in International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology:
      Misabsorbed medicines from the upper GIT