imbibe
verb (used with object)
to consume (liquids) by drinking; drink.
have imbibed
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present perfectof imbibe.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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He used to work with the cousins' fathers: "They were amazing people who loved what they did and have imbibed their children with this altruistic behaviour."
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
Twitter is also notorious for lacking the talent, vision, or gumption to create services more interesting than the same old feed we have imbibed since 2009.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2022
To these eyes — which, by a conservative estimate, have imbibed roughly 5,000 hours of “I Love Lucy” reruns — the answer was and still is pretty clearly no.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Trained at M.I.T., he was impressed by Le Corbusier in his youth, but he appears to have imbibed none of Corbu’s megalomania and world-making ambition.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
If the children have imbibed the poison it is too late to stop matters.
From The Little Princess of Tower Hill by L. T. Meade
