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- Dictionaryingest/ɪnˈdʒɛst/
verb
- 1. take (food, drink, or another substance) into the body by swallowing or absorbing it: "lead will poison anyone if enough is ingested"
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to take food or liquid into the stomach: These mushrooms are poisonous if ingested. (Definition of ingest from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of ingest. ingest. However, it seems unlikely that marine mammals would have the opportunity to ingest such fish with any frequency.
Ingest definition: to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).. See examples of INGEST used in a sentence.
: to take in for or as if for digestion. ingestible. in-ˈje-stə-bəl. adjective. ingestive. in-ˈje-stiv. adjective. Synonyms. consume. eat. partake (of) put away. put down. tuck (away or in) See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of ingest in a Sentence.
When you ingest something, you swallow it or otherwise consume it. If you don't ingest enough iron, you'll feel tired and weak and you'll look pale. Trees ingest carbon dioxide, and humans ingest the oxygen that trees in turn produce.
to take food or liquid into the stomach: These mushrooms are poisonous if ingested. (Definition of ingest from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of ingest. ingest. And some of the results of that work have been ingested by humans for years, often in the form of life-saving drugs.
2 meanings: 1. to take (food or liquid) into the body 2. (of a jet engine) to suck in (an object, a bird, etc).... Click for more definitions.
1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption. See Synonyms at eat. 2. To take in and absorb as food: "Marine ciliates ... can be observed ... ingesting other single-celled creatures and harvesting their chloroplasts" (Carol Kaesuk Yoon). [Latin ingerere, ingest- : in-, in; see in-2 + gerere, to carry .] in·gest′i·ble adj.
ingest something to take food, drugs, etc. into your body, usually by swallowing (= making them go down your throat) Food is the major source of ingested bacteria. Grazing animals ingest dioxins through eating contaminated plants.
INGEST definition: to eat or drink something.
ingest meaning, definition, what is ingest: to take food or other substances into yo...: Learn more.
