The corpus record — Latin

resorbeo

resorbeo · v. a

to suck back

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Where it lives

De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-sorbĕo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-sorbĕo, ēre, v. a.,

I to suck back, swallow again (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): quaeque vomit fluctus totidem totidemque resorbet, Ov. H. 12, 125; so, saxa (pontus), Verg. A. 11, 627 Wagn.: mare in se resorberi videbamus, Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 9: mare accrescere aut resorberi, Tac. Agr. 10 fin.: te rursus in bellum resorbens Unda fretis tulit aestuosis, Hor. C. 2, 7, 15: hamum (opp. egerunt), Plin. 9, 43, 67, § 145: (lapidis aestus) respuit ab se Atque per aes agitat, sine eo quod saepe resorbet, i. e. draws to itself, attracts, Lucr. 6, 1054; so, spiritum, to suck in, Quint. 11, 3, 55: carptim vocem, Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 362: fletum, to suppress, Sil. 12, 594; Sen. Herc. Oet. 1286: lacrimas, Stat. Th. 5, 654.

Where it came from

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