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English Dictionary: ingest by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ingest
v
  1. serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
    Synonym(s): consume, ingest, take in, take, have
    Antonym(s): abstain, desist, refrain
  2. take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"
    Synonym(s): absorb, assimilate, ingest, take in
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ingest \In*gest"\, v. t. [L. ingenium, p. p. of ingerere to put
      in; pref. in- in + gerere to bear.]
      To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.
      --Sir T. Browne.
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