ingest
Americanverb (used with object)
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to take, as food, into the body (egest ).
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Aeronautics. to draw (foreign matter) into the inlet of a jet engine, often causing damage to the engine.
verb
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to take (food or liquid) into the body
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(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
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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This indicates that these birds not only ingest alcohol but process it in a way similar to mammals.
From Science Daily
The book contains a frightening portrait of hyponatremia, which is a low level of sodium in the blood that can be triggered by ingesting too much water—a particular danger during endurance events.
She doesn’t say anything about how oatmeal raisin cookies are a missed opportunity to ingest chocolate or how long I just spent talking to Jonah or how I lost.
From Literature
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.
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
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