ingest
verb (used with object)
to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
ingesting
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present participleof ingest.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Much depends on what’s raising your body temperature in the first place — if you have a fever due to an infection, for example, see a doctor rather than ingesting peppermint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
It’s a position that has put Palantir at odds with leading AI labs, whom Karp has characterized as looking to “colonize” their customers by ingesting their business intelligence and proprietary data.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
"Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that would produce a high-quality product," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
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 ● Feb. 18, 2026
Did I worry about ingesting some horrid bacteria?
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
