Thesaurus results for INGEST

ingest

verb

in-ˈjest

Definition of ingest

as in to consume

to take in as food claims that the average person ingests considerably more calories than is necessary or desirable

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as in to swallow

to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat ingested the foul-tasting medicine with only the greatest difficulty

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Recent Examples of ingest Believing the substance to be cocaine, the victim ingested the drug, which resulted in a fatal overdose. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026 Canadian police said Law used a series of websites to market and sell sodium nitrite, a substance commonly used to cure meats that can be deadly if ingested. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026 According to Kenya's Wildlife Service, preliminary tests showed the elephants may have ingested cyanide. — Kristin Wright, NPR, 20 Sep. 2026 All parts of poison hemlock are poisonous if ingested, and exposure can be fatal. — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 18 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ingest

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That means an e-reader can display a page for hours while consuming essentially no display power between updates.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
According to a new report on eating patterns in America by market research company Circana, nearly half of US adults are actively trying to consume more protein, from bars to whey powder to chicken breasts night after night.

— Emily Laurence Sardinha, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of consume

Verb

What makes the news even tougher to swallow is that Horn had been healthy for the better part of the last three seasons after overcoming a lot of health issues early on in his NFL career.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 28 Sep. 2026
In what probably should’ve been a tell, when AT&T acquired it in 2018, the telecom swallowed Time Warner whole and there was no trace of the Warner name.

— Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of swallow

Verb

Even though the vast majority of prescriptions are written for generic drugs, drug spending is surging faster than any other category — and drugs have been eating more of the employer’s premium for multiple years now.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
That can include wild animals that seem unusually tame, nocturnal animals that are out in the day, and pets that have trouble walking, eating or a significant change in personality.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of eat

Verb

Martha Plimpton, Hoon Lee, and Ciarán Hinds spent the evening trading jokes while sipping on spicy margaritas.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026
By the third inning, the children were taking a break from the heat, sipping on water, juice and soda to hydrate.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of sip

Verb

Bella chews him out for punching Angus in the face right before Angus’s big presentation, which Johnny knew about because they were supposed to throw a return supper for him, a dinner Johnny was supposed to cook.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Her hair, barely brown, hung straight and appeared to be chewed at the ends.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of chew

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