"imbibe" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ɪmˈbaɪb/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-imbibe.wav [Southern-England] Forms: imbibes [present, singular, third-person], imbibing [participle, present], imbibed [participle, past], imbibed [past]
Rhymes: -aɪb Etymology: From Middle English imbiben, from Latin imbibō, from im- + bibō (“to drink”) (whence also beverage), from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-, whence also potable, potion. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*peh₃-}}, {{inh|en|enm|imbiben}} Middle English imbiben, {{der|en|la|imbibō}} Latin imbibō, {{m|la|im-}} im-, {{m|la|bibō||to drink}} bibō (“to drink”), {{m|en|beverage}} beverage, {{der|en|itc-pro|*pibō}} Proto-Italic *pibō, {{der|en|ine-pro|*peh₃-}} Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-, {{m|en|potable}} potable, {{m|en|potion}} potion Head templates: {{en-verb}} imbibe (third-person singular simple present imbibes, present participle imbibing, simple past and past participle imbibed)
  1. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages). Translations (drink): ըմպել (əmpel) (Armenian), пи́я (píja) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), изпи́вам (izpívam) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), (Chinese Mandarin), (yǐn) (Chinese Mandarin), (hē) (Chinese Mandarin), nasávat [imperfective] (Czech), tot zich nemen (Dutch), nuttigen (Dutch), drinken (Dutch), juoda (Finnish), boire (French), trinken (German), assorbire (Italian), 마시다 (masida) (Korean), pić [imperfective] (Polish), beber (Portuguese), bea (Romanian), пить (pitʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), принима́ть (prinimátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), पिबति (pibati) (Sanskrit), deoghail (Scottish Gaelic), beber (Spanish), tomar (Spanish), dricka (Swedish), supa (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-imbibe-en-verb-gIOCwfOo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 37 19 Disambiguation of 'drink': 68 21 10
  2. (figuratively) To take in; absorb. Tags: figuratively Translations (take in): пое́мам (poémam) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), поглъ́щам (poglǎ́štam) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), 吸收 (xīshōu) (Chinese Mandarin), 吸取 (xīqǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 吸入 (xīrù) (Chinese Mandarin), nasát [perfective] (Czech), vstřebat [perfective] (Czech), tot zich nemen (Dutch), opnemen (Dutch), omaksua (Finnish), imeä itseensä (Finnish), absorber (French), vereinnahmen (German), 吸収する (kyūshū suru) (alt: きゅうしゅうする) (Japanese), 흡수하다 (heupsuhada) (Korean), imbiben (Middle English), چكمك (çekmek) (Ottoman Turkish), embeber (Portuguese), îmbiba (Romanian), перенима́ть (perenimátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), поглоща́ть (pogloščátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), anamma (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-imbibe-en-verb-o-PCwV3B Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 37 19 Disambiguation of 'take in': 2 91 8
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To steep; to cause to absorb liquid. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-imbibe-en-verb-rtHn2ayi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 37 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: ingest Derived forms: imbiber, imbibement, imbibition

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "alt": "きゅうしゅうする",
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          "word": "吸収する"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*peh₃-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "potable"
      },
      "expansion": "potable",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "potion"
      },
      "expansion": "potion",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English imbiben, from Latin imbibō, from im- + bibō (“to drink”) (whence also beverage), from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-, whence also potable, potion.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "imbibes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imbibing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imbibed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imbibed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, 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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "drink",
          "drink"
        ],
        [
          "beverage",
          "beverage"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to imbibe knowledge"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪb"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "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",
      "sense": "drink",
      "word": "飲"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǐn",
      "sense": "drink",
      "word": "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": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "take in",
      "word": "anamma"
    }
  ],
  "word": "imbibe"
}

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