ingest

[in-jest]

verb (used with object)

1. to take, as food, into the body (egest ).

2. Aeronautics.,  to draw (foreign matter) into the inlet of a jet engine, often causing damage to the engine.

ingest

/ ɪnˈdʒɛst /

verb

1. to take (food or liquid) into the body

2. (of a jet engine) to suck in (an object, a bird, etc)

Other Word Forms

• ingestible adjective
• ingestion noun
• ingestive adjective
• reingest verb (used with object)
• uningested adjective
• uningestive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of ingest¹

First recorded in 1610–20; from Latin ingestus, past participle of ingerere “to throw or pour into”; in- ², gest

Word History and Origins

Origin of ingest¹

C17: from Latin ingerere to put into, from _in- ² + gerere to carry; see _gest

Example Sentences

All of the carbon in the trees and twigs the machine ingests ends up in the ground — not back in the air.

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In theory this means that once rat poison is ingested, they can't get rid of it.

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Based on the amount of fruit they normally eat, the chimps were ingesting around 14 grams of ethanol - equivalent to nearly two UK units, or roughly one 330ml bottle of lager.

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Mudryk's legal team and those in his tight-knit circle insist he did not knowingly ingest any banned substance, and multiple sources claim he has passed an unverified lie detector test attesting to that.

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Neither juvenile ingested the pills, and field testing showed them to contain illegal narcotics.

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Related Words

• absorb 
• consume 
• devour 
• drink 
• eat 
• inhale