English dictionary
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English verb: ingest | |||
| 1. | ingest (consumption) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | ||
| Samples | Have another bowl of chicken soup!. I don't take sugar in my coffee. | ||
| Examples | They ingest more bread | ||
| Synonyms | consume, have, take, take in | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | booze, cannibalise, cannibalize, do drugs, drink, drink, drug, eat, eat, eat, feed, fill, fuddle, get down, habituate, hit, imbibe, partake, replete, sample, sate, satiate, smoke, sop up, suck in, sup, swallow, take in, take up, taste, touch, try, try out, use | ||
| Antonyms | desist, abstain, refrain | ||
| 2. | ingest (cognition) take up mentally | ||
| Samples | He absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe. | ||
| Synonyms | absorb, assimilate, take in | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | acquire, larn, learn | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | imbibe | ||
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