ingest

Verb

Verb Forms: ingested, ingesting, ingests

• To take food or drink into the body.
• serve oneself to, or consume regularly
• take up mentally
• To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
• To cause (an undesired object or fluid) to enter the engine, generally via the intake.
• To bring or import into a system.

Noun

• The process of importing data or other material into a system.

Examples

• I tried to ingest the Scrabble dictionary, hoping to absorb all its words.
• The plane's engine ingested a large bird and flamed out.

Synonyms

absorb, assimilate, consume, have, take, take in, get outside, ingest, partake, put away, touch

Antonyms

abstain, defecate, regurgitate