ingest

[ in-jest ]

See synonyms for: ingest ingested ingestion on Thesaurus.com

verb (used with object)

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

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

Other 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

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How to use ingest in a sentence

He brought volunteers from his theology classes to a basement chapel where they would ingest either psilocybin or a placebo and hear the Good Friday service being piped in from above them.
What happens when psychedelics make you see God | Sarah Scoles | November 9, 2020 | Popular-Science
Young women, and women of all ages, have been forced to ingest really horrific and harmful messaging for the past four years.
Why ‘The Craft: Legacy’ director decided to make a witch movie for woke teens | Helena Andrews-Dyer | November 5, 2020 | Washington Post
While the exact mechanisms of psilocin are still under investigation, ingesting psilocybin is considered relatively safe.
Oregon just voted to legalize magic mushrooms. Here’s what that actually means. | Rachel Feltman | November 5, 2020 | Popular-Science
Applications that use large windows have memory requirements ranging from gigabytes to terabytes in size, meaning models can only ingest a few paragraphs of text or generate short pieces of music.
Could Google passage indexing be leveraging BERT? | Dawn Anderson | October 29, 2020 | Search Engine Land
Because we are all likely to conduct more and more doomscrolling as the election nears and 2020 continues its infamy, I urge you to stop ingesting digital junk, and start reading a book.
Stop doomscrolling on social media and read a book | matthewheimer | October 25, 2020 | Fortune

British Dictionary definitions for ingest

ingest

/ (ɪnˈdʒɛst) /

verb(tr)

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

Origin of ingest

C17: from Latin ingerere to put into, from in- ² + gerere to carry; see gest

Derived forms of ingest

ingestible, adjective
ingestion, noun
ingestive, adjective

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