ingest
to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
Aeronautics. to draw (foreign matter) into the inlet of a jet engine, often causing damage to the engine.
Origin of ingest
1Other words from ingest
- 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
Words Nearby ingest
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How to use ingest in a sentence
For example, Goldfinger said an 11-year-old texted the firm about ingesting a bottle of her mom’s prescription drugs out of despair.
How mental-health crisis centers have tried to weather the COVID-19 storm | Jonathan Vanian | February 5, 2021 | FortuneTwitter’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.
Twitter expands Google Cloud partnership to ‘learn more from data, move faster’ | Mary Ann Azevedo | February 4, 2021 | TechCrunchThey encountered 41-year-old Daniel Prude, who was naked and suffering from a mental health episode after ingesting PCP.
Rochester Police Suspended After Handcuffing and Pepper Spraying 9-Year-Old Girl | Shani Parrish | February 2, 2021 | Essence.comIf you prefer to try ingesting it as a supplement, be sure to consult your doctor before you do so.
Video games can cause motion sickness—here’s how to fight it | Sandra Gutierrez G. | February 2, 2021 | Popular-ScienceSo 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.
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Cholera and typhoid fever are transmitted when I ingest contaminated food or drink.
As I fretted over whether it was safe for her ingest the body paint, she extolled its benefits.
The next day, the enforcer made the girl “to ingest pills designed to induce spontaneous abortion.”
Did Christie Go Easy on a Human Trafficker Just to Bust a Small-Time Pol? | Olivia Nuzzi | March 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo if you do get snake bite or ingest poison, the Bible says you should go see your priest.
Paul also begins his book tour, planning a schedule with what drugs he will ingest “before twenty-two of his twenty-five events.”
They are able to migrate readily from place to place and to ingest small bodies, as bacteria.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd"Almost us ingest too many last dark," Geck gave what Hanlon knew was a shamefaced laugh.
Man of Many Minds | E. Everett EvansThe skink of course lacks the ophidian capacity to ingest relatively enormous objects.
Life History and Ecology of the Five-lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus | Henry S. Fitch
British Dictionary definitions for ingest
/ (ɪnˈdʒɛst) /
to take (food or liquid) into the body
(of a jet engine) to suck in (an object, a bird, etc)
Origin of ingest
1Derived forms of ingest
- ingestible, adjective
- ingestion, noun
- ingestive, adjective
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