ingest
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verb (used with object)
1.
to take, as food, into the body ( opposed to egest ).
2.
Aeronautics. to draw (foreign matter) into the inlet of a jet engine, often causing damage to the engine.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to take (food or liquid) into the body |
| 2. | (of a jet engine) to suck in (an object, a bird, etc) |
| [C17: from Latin ingerere to put into, from | |
| in'gestible | |
| —adj | |
| in'gestion | |
| —n | |
| in'gestive | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
ingest
1617, from L. ingestus, pp. of ingerere "to carry into, put into," from in- "into" + gerere "to carry."
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Example sentences
The chemicals can leak from the cushions and then babies can inhale or ingest them, or absorb them through their skin.
Healthy woolly bears also ingest alkaloids, but only in small amounts, apparently to make themselves unsavory to predators.
Also promising is the design of molecular envelopes for chemical compounds that would otherwise be toxic to ingest.
Children ingest twice the amount of dust that grown-ups do.
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