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)

Derived Forms

• inˈgestive, adjective
• inˈgestion, noun
• inˈgestible, adjective

Other Words From

• in·gesti·ble adjective
• in·gestion noun
• in·gestive adjective
• rein·gest verb (used with object)
• unin·gested adjective
• unin·gestive 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

For example, Goldfinger said an 11-year-old texted the firm about ingesting a bottle of her mom’s prescription drugs out of despair.

From Fortune

Twitter’s data platform ingests trillions of events, processes hundreds of petabytes of data and runs tens of thousands of jobs on over a dozen clusters daily.

From TechCrunch

They encountered 41-year-old Daniel Prude, who was naked and suffering from a mental health episode after ingesting PCP.

From Essence.com

If you prefer to try ingesting it as a supplement, be sure to consult your doctor before you do so.

From Popular-Science

So we worked pretty hard to update our internal technology to be able to ingest the data, and therefore make data-driven decisions off of the margin.

From Search Engine Land

Cholera and typhoid fever are transmitted when I ingest contaminated food or drink.

From The Daily Beast

As I fretted over whether it was safe for her ingest the body paint, she extolled its benefits.

From The Daily Beast

The next day, the enforcer made the girl “to ingest pills designed to induce spontaneous abortion.”

From The Daily Beast

So if you do get snake bite or ingest poison, the Bible says you should go see your priest.

From The Daily Beast

Paul also begins his book tour, planning a schedule with what drugs he will ingest “before twenty-two of his twenty-five events.”

From The Daily Beast

They are able to migrate readily from place to place and to ingest small bodies, as bacteria.

From Project Gutenberg

"Almost us ingest too many last dark," Geck gave what Hanlon knew was a shamefaced laugh.

From Project Gutenberg

The skink of course lacks the ophidian capacity to ingest relatively enormous objects.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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