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imbiber Definition


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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.



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