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Sorbed
- verb - (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance; "the sorbed oil mass"; "large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium"
- take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
Sorbet
- noun - an ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice
Sorbic
- - Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C
Sorbin
- - An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.
Sorbus
- noun - a genus of shrubs or trees of the family Rosaceae having feathery leaves
Sordes
- - Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression.
Sordid
- adjective - Dirty
- foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
- meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
- morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
- unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
Sorely
- adverb - in or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely wounded"
- to a great degree; "I missed him sorely"; "we were sorely taxed to keep up with them"