imbibe

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I've been known myself to imbibe, as far as that goes, though I'm a reformed man when it comes to that.

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  1. transitive verb To drink.
  2. transitive verb To absorb or take in as if by drinking: "The whole body . . . imbibes delight through every pore” (Henry David Thoreau).
  3. transitive verb To receive and absorb into the mind: "Gladstone had . . . imbibed a strong prejudice against Americans” (Philip Magnus).
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  • Jesus: I know I sound like someone from the temperance league, but couldn't anybody have talked about his life, her work - some of them have jobs, surely - or just indulged in a moment of one-on-one communication that did not involved the urge to screw, imbibe or evacuate? —  GreenCine Daily
  • Rating this as the topmost priority for 2009, CIOs will need to find the right balance in employing domain experts who have the capability to deal with legacy systems as well as be able to imbibe new emerging technologies. —  IT Channel News | Latest Information Technology News - Home
  • I work at a liberal artsy kind of place where not only will the original title attract hordes of vultures ready to pounce on what might otherwise be an ignored announcement of "[Cutesy name] cupcakes in cube 2026!" but, if HR were to be invited to, um, imbibe, they would be first in line, all elbows and grabby hands. —  doggdot.us
  • Go and try to imbibe these values on your sisters and wife's. —  rediff.com
  • The Handsome Family once sang "There's only so much wine you can drink in one life", well I'm off down the Bridge to imbibe a few pre-match snifters and test whether that theory equally applies to beer. —  Chelsea Blog
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imbibe:   imbibed
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English embiben, to soak up, saturate, from Latin imbibere, to drink in, imbibe : in-, in; see in-2 + bibere, to drink; see pō(i)- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English *enbiben, French imbiber = Spanish Portuguese embeber = Italian imbevere, from Latin imbibere, inbibere, drink in, from in, in, + bibere, drink: see bib, bibulous.
 

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