ingest
verb /ɪnˈdʒest/
/ɪnˈdʒest/
(specialist)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they ingest | /ɪnˈdʒest/ /ɪnˈdʒest/ |
| he / she / it ingests | /ɪnˈdʒests/ /ɪnˈdʒests/ |
| past simple ingested | /ɪnˈdʒestɪd/ /ɪnˈdʒestɪd/ |
| past participle ingested | /ɪnˈdʒestɪd/ /ɪnˈdʒestɪd/ |
| -ing form ingesting | /ɪnˈdʒestɪŋ/ /ɪnˈdʒestɪŋ/ |
- ingest something to take food, drugs, etc. into your body, usually by swallowing (= making them go down your throat)
- Food is the major source of ingested bacteria.
- Grazing animals ingest dioxins through eating contaminated plants.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIngest is used with these nouns as the object:- calorie
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin ingest- ‘brought in’, from the verb ingerere, from in- ‘into’ + gerere ‘carry’.