单词 | ingest |
释义 | ingest (once / 11398 pages) v When you ingest something, you swallow it or otherwise consume it. If you don't ingest enough iron, you'll feel tired and weak and you'll look pale. Trees ingest carbon dioxide, and humans ingest the oxygen that trees in turn produce. We also ingest a lot of other things, like French fries, ice cream, and root beer. You can also use this word to mean "take in information," like when you ingest the details of your history book. Ingest has a Latin root, ingestus, "poured in," from in-, "into," and gerere, "to carry." WORD FAMILYingest: ingested, ingesting, ingestion, ingests+/ingestion: ingestions USAGE EXAMPLESOn New Year’s Day in 1961, Leary’s team ingested mushrooms in his living room. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) The plant is highly toxic to people and most animals if ingested. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) When ingested by humans, paraquat is often fatal. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1v serve oneself to, or consume regularly Syn|Ant|Hypo consume, have, take, take in abstain, desist, refrain choose not to consume hit consume to excess cannibalise, cannibalizeeat human flesh habituate, usetake or consume (regularly or habitually) eateat a meal; take a meal eattake in solid food drink, imbibetake in liquids booze, drink, fuddleconsume alcohol partake, touchconsume eat, feedtake in food; used of animals only fill, replete, sate, satiatefill to satisfaction sample, taste, try, try outtake a sample of sop up, suck in, take in, take uptake up as if with a sponge smokeinhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes do drugs, druguse recreational drugs get down, swallowpass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking suptake solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon take away, take outbuy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food victualtake in nourishment wash downeat food accompanied by lots of liquid; also use metaphorically dine in, eat ineat at home dine out, eat outeat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home dinehave supper; eat dinner picniceat alfresco, in the open air fress, gluttonise, gluttonizeeat a lot and without restraint wolf, wolf downeat hastily slurpeat noisily swill, swill downdrink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink) suckdraw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth guggle, gurgledrink from a flask with a gurgling sound sipdrink in sips guzzledrink greedily or as if with great thirst lap, lap up, licktake up with the tongue tankconsume excessive amounts of alcohol portdrink port claretdrink claret bar hop, pub-crawlgo from one pub to the next and get progressively more drunk bib, tippledrink moderately but regularly drink, topedrink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic break breadhave a meal, usually with company receivepartake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament fareeat well dig in, pitch ineat heartily nosh, snackeat a snack; eat lightly peck, peck at, pick ateat like a bird peck, pick upeat by pecking at, like a bird bolt, gobbleeat hastily without proper chewing bolt down, garbage down, gobble up, shovel ineat a large amount of food quickly nibble, pick, pieceeat intermittently; take small bites of ruminatechew the cuds drain the cup, drink updrink to the last drop messeat in a mess hall boardlodge and take meals (at) foragewander and feed ravenfeed greedily lunchtake the midday meal bruncheat a meal in the late morning breakfasteat an early morning meal banquet, feast, junketpartake in a feast or banquet sucklesuck milk from the mother's breasts hit it up, inebriate, soak, sousebecome drunk or drink excessively winedrink wine dip, dunkdip into a liquid while eating binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuffovereat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself cloy, pallcause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing degusttaste with relish devour, guttle, pig, raveneat greedily eat up, finish, polish offfinish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table consume, devour, down, go througheat immoderately chain-smokesmoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one puff, whiffsmoke and exhale strongly inhaledraw deep into the lungs in by breathing injecttake by injection snort, take a hitinhale through the nose base, free-baseuse (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes droptake (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth dopetake drugs to improve one's athletic performance gulp, quaff, swigto swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss offdrink down entirely boltswallow hastily fill, fill upeat until one is sated carry, holddrink alcohol without showing ill effects browse, crop, graze, pasture, rangefeed as in a meadow or pasture 2v take up mentally Syn|Hypo|Hyper absorb, assimilate, take in imbibe receive into the mind and retain acquire, larn, learn gain knowledge or skills |
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