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Imbibing

noun

The act of consuming liquids. Synonyms: drinking, imbibition.

Imbibe

verb

(past & past part. imbibed; pres. part. imbibing)

Take in, also metaphorically. Synonyms: absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up. "She drew strength from the minister's words"

Take (gas, light or heat) into a solution. Synonym: assimilate.

Take in liquids. Synonym: drink. "The children like to drink soda"

Receive into the mind and retain.

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"Imbibing" Quotes from Famous Books

... back of his head, its brim upturned, revealed his bluff open face—it held no craft surely; he hardly seemed to notice how insistently Peters pressed after him, unmindful of his henchmen and Jerry imbibing appreciatively the product of the cheerful ...

— The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock

... Minerva, who was the patroness of masters and pupils—celebrated at regular intervals in the schools, but the children were taught reading out of books saturated with the old mythology. There the Christian child made his first acquaintance with the deities of Olympus. He ran the danger of imbibing ideas entirely contrary to those which he had received at home. The fables he had learned to detest in his own home were explained, elucidated, and held up to his admiration every day by his masters. Was it right to put him thus ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

... a Greek chambermaid, and a slave or two, chosen for the purpose, generally the worst of the whole household train; all utter strangers to every liberal notion. In that worshipful society [a] the youth grows up, imbibing folly and vulgar error. Throughout the house, not one servant cares what he says or does [b] in the presence of his young master: and indeed how should it be otherwise? The parents themselves are the first to give their children the worst examples of vice and luxury. The stripling consequently ...

— A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence • Cornelius Tacitus

... herself marvelously well to the new conditions, imbibing the best civilization had to offer, she nevertheless remained the freeborn woman—the descendant of a freeborn race of men. The wild, free nomad whom experience and direct contact with nature had early taught to recognize the simple underlying truths and realities of life ...

— When Dreams Come True • Ritter Brown

... holding inveterate against her native land in his black ingratitude. Oh! but eloquence upon a good cause will win you the hearts of all women, Saxon or other, never doubt of it. And Jane Mattock there, imbibing forced doses of Arthur Adister, will find her patriotism dissolving in the natural human current; and she and Philip have a pretty wrangle, and like one another none the worse for not agreeing: patriotically speaking, she's really unrooted by that half-thawed colonel, a creature snow-bound ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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