поглинати

недок. поглинати, док. поглинути

to absorb; to engulf, to swallow up, to take up; (про безодню) to gulf, to ingurgitate; (пожирати) to devour; to engross (тж. перен.)

поглинати воду — to absorb water

хвилі поглинули його — he was submerged by the waves