Synonyms

ingest

American

[in-jest] / ɪnˈdʒɛst /

verb (used with object)

to take, as food, into the body (egest ).
Aeronautics. to draw (foreign matter) into the inlet of a jet engine, often causing damage to the engine.

ingest British

/ ɪnˈdʒɛst /

verb

to take (food or liquid) into the body
(of a jet engine) to suck in (an object, a bird, etc)

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Other Word Forms

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

Etymology

Origin of ingest

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

Example Sentences

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Research into microplastics, and even smaller nanoplastics, has sparked widespread concern about how everything from food packaging to microbeads in cosmetics is shedding tiny bits of material that we could be ingesting.

From The Wall Street Journal

Devlin suspects that slow feeding in cold conditions and the complexity of natural soils may limit how much plastic the larvae actually ingest.

From Science Daily

As well as posing a choking hazard, pieces of plastic can cause damage to the digestive system if ingested.

From BBC

Eric then had ChatGPT’s Atlas browser ingest her work and write instructions for another AI tool, Google AI Studio, to redesign it—in less than 15 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal

The research team also explored why certain fish were more likely to ingest microplastics.

From Science Daily

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