imbibe Definition

imbibe
verb imbibed, imbibing

1. now facetious or formal
To drink, especially alcoholic drinks.
Thesaurus: drink, ingest, gorge, guzzle.
2. formal or literary
To take in or absorb something (eg ideas), as if drinking them in or soaking them up.
Thesaurus: absorb, take in, soak up, suck up.

Derivative: imbiber
noun

Etymology: 14c in obsolete sense ‘to soak something in liquid': from Latin imbibere, from bibere to drink.