Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for ingest

ingest

verb as in swallow

Strong matches

Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

During the first six months of life, infants ingest significantly more aluminum from breast milk or formula than they get from vaccines.

Previous work revealed that tumors use CD47 as a "don't eat me signal" to prevent certain immune cells from ingesting them.

Read more on Science Daily

Marine mammals reach similar danger at 29 pieces, while sea turtles need to ingest around 405 pieces to hit the same threshold.

Read more on BBC

She declares herself a powerful deity and explains that God is essentially a “tube” that constantly ingests and secretes experiences and things.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

Skaggs was involved in three crimes, Theodora said, “one, criminal possession; two, taking or ingesting illicit drugs; and three — as you’ll hear from five players — Tyler was distributing illicit pills to them.”

Read more on Los Angeles Times

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement