(verb) : rĕ-sorbĕo, ēre
* 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.