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absorbent

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absorbent
adjective
a piece of absorbent cotton wool:
porous, spongy, sponge-like, permeable, pervious, absorptive, penetrable, assimilative, receptive, soaking, blotting;
technical spongiform;
rare sorbefacient.
antonyms impermeable, waterproof.
absorbent Oxford Dictionary of English