INGEST
Dictionary entry overview: What does ingest mean?
• INGEST (verb)
The verb INGEST has 2 senses:
1. serve oneself to, or consume regularly
2. take up mentally
Familiarity information: INGEST used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INGEST (verb)
Meaning:
Serve oneself to, or consume regularly
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
ingest; consume; have; take in; take
Context examples:
Have another bowl of chicken soup! / I don't take sugar in my coffee
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ingest"):
get down; swallow (pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking)
do drugs; drug (use recreational drugs)
smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)
sop up; suck in; take in; take up (take up as if with a sponge)
sample; taste; try; try out (take a sample of)
fill; replete; sate; satiate (fill to satisfaction)
eat; feed (take in food; used of animals only)
partake; touch (consume)
booze; drink; fuddle (consume alcohol)
drink; imbibe (take in liquids)
eat (take in solid food)
eat (eat a meal; take a meal)
habituate; use (take or consume (regularly or habitually))
cannibalise; cannibalize (eat human flesh)
hit (consume to excess)
sup (take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They ingest more bread
Meaning:
Take up mentally
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
assimilate; absorb; ingest; take in
Context example:
he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe
Hypernyms (to "ingest" is one way to...):
acquire; larn; learn (gain knowledge or skills)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ingest"):
imbibe (receive into the mind and retain)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
