Definition of ingest
: to take in for or as if for digestion
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Examples of ingest in a Sentence
The drug is more easily ingested in pill form.
claims that the average person ingests considerably more calories than is necessary or desirable
Recent Examples of ingest from the Web
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The blood of the group who took 600 milligrams killed up to 97 percent of the mosquitoes that ingested their blood died and the effects of the drug lasted about a month with patients experiencing minimal side effects.
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Before police arrived to his home, Diop cut himself and ingested a toxic substance, WTVD previously reported.
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As well, some children may ingest too much of the medicine — on their own or given to them — which can cause respiratory depression or even death.
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Also, in the 1970s Lupus ingested between 150 and 250 vitamin and mineral pills a day.
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Prosecutors said the boy ingested approximately nine pills, causing his death.
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Gabriel’s studies in 2012, 2013 and 2015 linked the deaths of fishers, a weasel-like mammal, to them ingesting rat poison at clandestine grows.
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Here's why: A vacuum leak is downstream of the device that measures the incoming air—the mass airflow (MAF) sensor—which means the engine actually ingests more air than is measured and the computer gets an erroneous low reading.
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Panda says that mice and humans - and probably most organisms - are not built to simultaneously ingest food and metabolize it.
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Origin and Etymology of ingest
Latin ingestus, past participle of ingerere to carry in, from in- + gerere to bear
ingest Synonyms
Synonyms
consume, eat, partake (of), put away, put down, tuck (away or in);
Related Words
digest, down, mouth (down), swallow;
bolt, chow (down on), devour, glut (on), gobble (up or down), gorge, gulp, scoff, slop, snarf (down), swill, wolf;
chew, gnaw (at or on), gum, lap, lick, nibble (on), nurse, pick (at);
relish, savor (also savour), taste;
INGEST Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of ingest for English Language Learners
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: to take (something, such as food) into your body : to swallow (something)
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of ingest
: to take in for or as if for digestion
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