In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
SORBED
occluded, sorbed
(adjective) (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance; “the sorbed oil mass”; “large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
sorbed
simple past tense and past participle of sorb
Anagrams
• Brodes, desorb
Source: Wiktionary
SORB
Sorb, n.Etym: [L. sorbus the tree, sorbum the fruit; cf. F. sorbe. See Service tree.] (Bot.) (a) The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree. (b) The fruit of these trees. Sorb apple, the fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree.
– Sorb tree, the wild service tree.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SUBDUCTION
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
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