See imbibe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "“Every minute,” continued M. Krempe with warmth, “every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost. You have burdened your memory with exploded systems, and useless names. Good God! in what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies, which you have so greedily imbibed, are a thousand years old, and as musty as they are ancient? I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. My dear Sir, you must begin your studies entirely anew.”",
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "imbibing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "imbibed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "imbibed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "imbibe (third-person singular simple present imbibes, present participle imbibing, simple past and past participle imbibed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"word": "ingest"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1899, John A. Logan, Jr., In Joyful Russia, 2nd edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 185:",
"text": "Perhaps in the case of the vodka-drinking peasant it is this weekly parboil which saves his life and postpones the dreadful day when the constant imbibing of unlimited quantities of the deadly liquor must be paid for.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 55:",
"text": "Without its sting, the common yellowjacket would be unable to steal ham from our sandwich or imbibe the sweet juice from our peach.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages)."
],
"links": [
[
"drink",
"drink"
],
[
"beverage",
"beverage"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to imbibe knowledge"
},
{
"ref": "1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, pages 69–70:",
"text": "“Every minute,” continued M. Krempe with warmth, “every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost. You have burdened your memory with exploded systems, and useless names. Good God! in what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies, which you have so greedily imbibed, are a thousand years old, and as musty as they are ancient? I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. My dear Sir, you must begin your studies entirely anew.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 144:",
"text": "To eradicate that error, already but too deeply imbibed, to subdue and triumph over human infirmity, was indeed difficult, but to Rosilia a derogation from virtue was still more so.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico, published 2007, page 219:",
"text": "Like the late Dr Falk (d. 1782), Grabianka was a native of Podolia, where Sabbatian influences were strong among local Jews, and he imbibed many of their notions.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian:",
"text": "If you’ve been imbibing Craig’s Kelly’s Covid monologues over the summer and wondering why Scott Morrison lets one of his own MPs regularly contradict the official public health advice without rebuke, let me try to answer your question.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To take in; absorb."
],
"links": [
[
"take",
"take"
],
[
"absorb",
"absorb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) To take in; absorb."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To steep; to cause to absorb liquid."
],
"links": [
[
"steep",
"steep"
],
[
"liquid",
"liquid"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, transitive) To steep; to cause to absorb liquid."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɪmˈbaɪb/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪb"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "əmpel",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "ըմպել"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "píja",
"sense": "drink",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пи́я"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izpívam",
"sense": "drink",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "изпи́вам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǐn",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "飲 /饮"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hē",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "喝"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "drink",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "nasávat"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "tot zich nemen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "nuttigen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "drinken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "juoda"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "boire"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "trinken"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "assorbire"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "masida",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "마시다"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "drink",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "beber"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "bea"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pitʹ",
"sense": "drink",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prinimátʹ",
"sense": "drink",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "принима́ть"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "pibati",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "पिबति"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "deoghail"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "beber"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "tomar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "dricka"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "drink",
"word": "supa"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "poémam",
"sense": "take in",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пое́мам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "poglǎ́štam",
"sense": "take in",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "поглъ́щам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xīshōu",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "吸收"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xīqǔ",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "吸取"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xīrù",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "吸入"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "take in",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "nasát"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "take in",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vstřebat"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "tot zich nemen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "opnemen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "omaksua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "imeä itseensä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "absorber"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "vereinnahmen"
},
{
"alt": "きゅうしゅうする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyūshū suru",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "吸収する"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "heupsuhada",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "흡수하다"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "imbiben"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "çekmek",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "چكمك"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "embeber"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "îmbiba"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perenimátʹ",
"sense": "take in",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "перенима́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pogloščátʹ",
"sense": "take in",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "поглоща́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "embeber"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "take in",
"word": "anamma"
}
],
"word": "imbibe"
}
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