ingest
verb (used with object)
to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
ingests
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present tense formof ingest (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Everlab’s platform ingests and organizes documents and data from doctors, specialists and pathologists, compiling patient records that it augments with real-time data from users’ existing wearable devices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
All of the carbon in the trees and twigs the machine ingests ends up in the ground — not back in the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
The reaction, called alpha-gal syndrome, occurs when an infected person eats beef, pork, venison or other meat from mammals — or ingests milk, gelatin or other mammal products.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
The reaction, called alpha-gal syndrome, occurs when an infected person eats beef, pork, venison or other meat from mammals - or ingests milk, gelatin or other mammal products.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
One ingests a horse-doctor's dose of words, but fails to acquire any illumination.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
