to ingest
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3.6
- verb
- /ɪnˈdʒɛst/
:
ingerir
- It is important to chew your food thoroughly before you ingest it.
- ingest food
- ingest water
- children accidentally ingest
I drink fluids, water, and I do ingest caffeine prior to those training days.
- I drink fluids, water, and I do ingest caffeine prior to those training days.
- Poison is ingested and venom is injected.
- Although one wouldn't ingest caffeine prior to waking up for obvious reasons.
- I also cut out a large amount of sugar that I was ingesting.
- The journey that you went on involved a bitter liquid that you ingested.
- And while it's not great to ingest a lot of sugar, that itself can lead to issues.
- This can hinge on you've been eating lots of extra green foods or ingesting a food that has green food dye in it.
- And because I'd heard that it's better to inject it than to to ingest it.
- OK, so the person ingests the the powder a little pill.
- Let's go and move and ingest food, for example, and see what that you know.
- Like is there a way that you could live your life and not ingest any China?
Examples
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Humans become infected when ingesting eggs or larvae in contaminated food.
Academic text (2012) -
I'm saying it's safe if you get it on your skin or in your eyes or if you ingest it by accident, you know?
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How much loose powder do you think we ingest on like a yearly basis?
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You learn quickly to ingest any nourishment offered to you from any source.
Fiction book (1996) -
But across the day, I ingest fewer calories than I burn.
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This is the molecule that we ingest when they get our daily vitamin supplement.
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One could argue that the difference is that anyone can ingest caffeine without a prescription.
Academic text (2008) -
Preventing contaminated water from being ingested by teaching children not to swallow recreational water is also essential.
Academic text (2008) -
Methanol is much more toxic than gasoline, causing death if ingested in even small quantities.
Academic text (2000) -
Maria believes her best friend's recent neurological problems were caused by ingesting too much soya.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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1.0
Put food or drink into your mouth, chew it and swallow it
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1.0
Use or receive something regularly
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1.0
To eat or drink as part of a meal
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1.0
To put liquid into the mouth and swallow it
295
1.0
To make food or drink move from the mouth into the stomach
149
2.4
To eat or drink something
8
2.5
Eat or drink something
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ingest comes from Latin parts in- 'into' and -gest 'carry'. So it means to take food or drink 'into' your body by swallowing, like 'carrying in' what you eat or drink.