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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

... and Weymouth, with its charming bay, was looking its very best. A gentle southerly breeze was blowing; the air was clear—just warm enough to render a dip in the sea the quintessence of luxury—and so laden with ozone and the wholesome scent of the sea that to breathe it was like imbibing a draught of elixir vitae. The east land was in itself a picture as it stretched across the horizon in front of the town, its lofty chalk-cliffs and swelling downs, the latter dotted here and there with a solitary farm-house or a clump of trees, gleaming softly ...

— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood

... every side surround it.' And having given vent to this beautiful reflection, Mr. Pickwick proceeded to put himself into his clothes, and his clothes into his portmanteau. Great men are seldom over scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire; the operation of shaving, dressing, and coffee-imbibing was soon performed; and, in another hour, Mr. Pickwick, with his portmanteau in his hand, his telescope in his greatcoat pocket, and his note-book in his waistcoat, ready for the reception of any discoveries worthy of being noted down, had arrived at the coach-stand ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

... the faculty of maintaining a temperature below that of the surrounding air, can only be accounted for by referring it to the mechanical process of imbibing a continuous supply of fresh moisture from the soil, the active transpiration of which imparts coolness to every portion of the tree and its fruit. It requires this combined operation to produce the desired result; and the extent to which evaporation can bring down the ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... his side, and then the pair reached a side door, connecting with the hotel barroom. They looked in and at a small table saw the two chauffeurs drinking liquor from a bottle set before them. Both were rather noisy and had evidently been imbibing freely. ...

— The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. • Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur M. Winfield)

... president answered; "exactly the same, except one is written and the other spoken language." (Rebecca was rather good at imbibing information, and a master hand at imparting it!) "Written language is for poems and graduations and occasions like this—kind of like a best Sunday-go-to-meeting dress that you wouldn't like to go blueberrying in for fear ...

— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin

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