All osmose synonyms

verb osmose

• consume — If you consume something, you eat or drink it.
• ingest — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
• swallow — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
• take in — the act of taking.
• blot — If something is a blot on a person's or thing's reputation, it spoils their reputation.
• devour — If a person or animal devours something, they eat it quickly and eagerly.
• imbibe — to consume (liquids) by drinking; drink: He imbibed great quantities of iced tea.
• ingurgitate — to swallow greedily or in great quantity, as food.
• soak up — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
• sop up — a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
• suck in — to draw into the mouth by producing a partial vacuum by action of the lips and tongue: to suck lemonade through a straw.
• comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
• grasp — to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
• incorporate — to form into a legal corporation.
• understand — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
• digest — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
• learn — to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.
• sense — any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
• take up — the act of taking.
• seep — to pass, flow, or ooze gradually through a porous substance: Water seeps through cracks in the wall.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• flow — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
• leak — an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
• ooze — (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• abate — If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• dwindle — to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
• effuse — to pour out or forth; shed; disseminate: The town effuses warmth and hospitality.
• exude — Discharge (moisture or a smell) slowly and steadily.
• percolate — to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
• trickle — to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream: Tears trickled down her cheeks.
• well — in a good or satisfactory manner: Business is going well.
• run off — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
• taper off — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
• clean — Something that is clean is free from dirt or unwanted marks.
• drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
• dribble — to fall or flow in drops or small quantities; trickle.
• penetrate — to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
• permeate — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
• refine — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
• sift — to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
• winnow — to free (grain) from the lighter particles of chaff, dirt, etc., especially by throwing it into the air and allowing the wind or a forced current of air to blow away impurities.
• clarify — To clarify something means to make it easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail.
• distil — (transitive) Subject a substance to distillation; .
• distill — to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration.
• escape — An act of breaking free from confinement or control.
• filtrate — liquid that has been passed through a filter.
• metastasize — Pathology. (of malignant cells or disease-producing organisms) to spread to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces.