ingest
/in'dʤest/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To take (food, drink, or another substance) into the body, typically by swallowing or absorbing it. This is the primary meaning, referring to the physical process of consumption.
- To take in and absorb (information, ideas, or experiences). This is a figurative extension, meaning to mentally consume or assimilate knowledge.
Usage and Examples
- Literal (Consuming Food/Drink/Substance):
- It is dangerous to ingest these chemicals.
- The patient is unable to ingest solid food.
- Figurative (Consuming Information):
- Students need time to ingest the complex material from the lecture.
- She ingested vast amounts of data for her research report.
Advanced Usage
- "to ingest into": (Technical/Medical) To introduce a substance into a system or the body.
- The capsule is designed to ingest the medication slowly into the bloodstream.
Variants and Related Words
- Ingestion (n): The process of taking food, drink, or another substance into the body.
- Food ingestion begins in the mouth.
- Ingestible (adj): Fit to be taken into the body as nourishment.
- Not all plants are ingestible.
Synonyms
- Consume: To eat, drink, or use up.
- Swallow: To cause something to pass from the mouth into the stomach.
- Absorb: To take in or soak up (especially for the figurative sense).
- Take in: To receive or absorb.
Antonyms
- Expel: To force or drive out.
- Vomit: To eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
- Excrete: To discharge waste matter from the body.
Related Phrases/Idioms
- "Easier ingested than digested": (A play on the idiom "Easier said than done") Suggests that taking in information is simpler than fully understanding or processing it.
- The professor's theory was easier ingested than digested by the first-year students.
Verb
- take up mentally
- he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- Have another bowl of chicken soup!
- I don't take sugar in my coffee