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DESORB
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they desorb ... he / she / it desorbs
Past simple: desorbed
Past participle: desorbed
-ing form: desorbing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed
Example:
the substance was desorbed
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "desorb" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Verb group:
desorb (go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
desorption (changing from an adsorbed state on a surface to a gaseous or liquid state)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "desorb" is one way to...):
disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)
Verb group:
desorb (remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
desorption (changing from an adsorbed state on a surface to a gaseous or liquid state)
