DESORB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does desorb mean? 

• DESORB (verb)
  The verb DESORB has 2 senses:

1. go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed

2. remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed

  Familiarity information: DESORB used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESORB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they desorb    ... he / she / it desorbs   
Past simple: desorbed   
Past participle: desorbed   
-ing form: desorbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "desorb" is one way to...):

disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)

Verb group:

desorb (remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

desorption (changing from an adsorbed state on a surface to a gaseous or liquid state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

the substance was desorbed

Hypernyms (to "desorb" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

desorb (go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

desorption (changing from an adsorbed state on a surface to a gaseous or liquid state)