Word

ingest, v.
(ingested, ingesting, ingests)
freq. cnt. 3

serve oneself to, or consume regularly
<verb.consumption> freq. cnt.: 62 freq. cnt.: 42 freq. cnt.: 15 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2

consume have ingest take take in

sample sentences

"Have another bowl of chicken soup!"
"I don't take sugar in my coffee"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
They %s the cake with sugar

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Somebody ----s something
They %s the cake with sugar

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Somebody ----s something

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Somebody ----s something
They %s more bread

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Somebody ----s something
They %s more bread

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also see

take up

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derivationally related form

consumptive consumption consumer

antonym

abstain

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derivationally related form

ingestion

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hyponym

cannibalize, cannibalise use, habituate eat eat drink, imbibe drink, booze, fuddle, hit the bottle partake, touch eat, feed satiate, fill, sate, replete sample, taste, try, try out suck in, take in, sop up, take up sup

take up mentally
<verb.cognition> freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

absorb assimilate ingest take in

sample sentences

"he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something

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Somebody ----s something

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Somebody ----s something

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Somebody ----s something

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derivationally related form

absorption

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derivationally related form

assimilation assimilation assimilator

semantic pointers

hypernym

learn, larn, acquire

hyponym

imbibe