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

Partly because I was exhausted from the tryptophan I had ingested with my turkey the day before and could not get out of bed.

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During the first six months of life, infants ingest significantly more aluminum from breast milk or formula than they get from vaccines.

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Previous work revealed that tumors use CD47 as a "don't eat me signal" to prevent certain immune cells from ingesting them.

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Marine mammals reach similar danger at 29 pieces, while sea turtles need to ingest around 405 pieces to hit the same threshold.

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She declares herself a powerful deity and explains that God is essentially a “tube” that constantly ingests and secretes experiences and things.

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Related Words

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