Absorb and Dissolve

Absorb

Absorb verb - To take in (something liquid) through small openings.

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Dissolve and absorb are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dissolve" instead a verb "Absorb".

Dissolve verb - To cease to be visible.

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Absorb and dissolve are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Absorb" instead a verb "Dissolve".

energy	absorb energy	dissolve energy
people	absorb people	dissolve people
body	absorb body	dissolve body
matter	absorb matter	dissolve matter
Other words: flesh, form, world, magic, weapons, bodies, forms.

The Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook "Book of Vile Darkness" provides with a squicktastic example in the Spell "Wall of Eyes" - if you try to force your way through it, it will dissolve and absorb you, your eyes added to the wall.

Source: The Walls Have Eyes
When the victim is immobilized they enter all of its orifices and deliver digestive enzymes that dissolve the animal's internal organs, then absorb the residue.

Source: Combat Tentacles
After you get it, they dissolve into a white ectoplasmic residue while you absorb their souls.

Source: Everything Fades

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