imbibe
verb/ɪmˈbaɪb/
Etymology
Definitions
To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
- Perhaps in the case of the vodka-drinking peasant it is this weekly parboil which saves his life and postpones the dreadful day when the constant imbibing of unlimited quantities of the deadly liquor must be paid for.
- Without its sting, the common yellowjacket would be unable to steal ham from our sandwich or imbibe the sweet juice from our peach.
To take in
To take in; absorb.
- to imbibe knowledge
- To eradicate that error, already but too deeply imbibed, to subdue and triumph over human infirmity, was indeed difficult, but to Rosilia a derogation from virtue was still more so.
To steep
To steep; to cause to absorb liquid.
The neighborhood
- neighboringest
Derived
imbibable, imbibement, imbiber, imbibition, preimbibe, reimbibe, unimbibed
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at imbibe. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at imbibe. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at imbibe
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA