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Unfamiliar Gout Causes People affected with gout not only have to regularly check on the contents of the food and drinks that they ingest, as some of the ingredients being used may be harmful to them and bring about a sudden attack of gout. ...

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  1. transitive verb To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption. See Synonyms at eat.
  2. transitive verb To take in and absorb as food: "Marine ciliates ... can be observed ... ingesting other single-celled creatures and harvesting their chloroplasts” (Carol Kaesuk Yoon).

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  • In its urgency to ingest, the thing rippled in waves of gray, greasy colors: sickly greens, dull pink tones, and an occasional streak of yellow flowed across its surface, the image sickeningly distorted by the thick clear plastic. —  Dragons Dawn
  • He gave me room and board and all the drugs I could ingest, as long as I wasn't passed out when he had a job he wanted me to do. —  Emma Bull - Finder
  • The fact is, no complete psychopharmacological 'behavior table' exists for the multitude of substances (controlled or otherwise) which humans might ingest -- even accidentally -- including foodstuffs, which could, based on an individual's body chemistry, produce hallucinations, psychotic episodes, or any number of other undesirable physical conditions leading to 'impaired behavior' -- but, for some reason, we have fixated on drugs. —  The Real Frank Zappa Book
  • * Digital asset management and order management systems for ingest, archiving and collaborating virtually every type of media asset. —  Internet Ad Sales
  • And the more capsaicin you ingest, the bigger and better it gets. —  A Second Hand Conjecture » Around the Web
 

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  1. Latin ingerere, ingest- : in-, in; see in-2 + gerere, to carry.

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  1. from Latin ingestus, past participle of ingerere, carry, put, pour, or throw into or upon, from in, in, + gerere, carry: see gest.
 

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