(Slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
To receive and absorb into the mind:
Suck is defined as to draw in by suction.
The definition of ingest is to consume or absorb food or information.
To transform (food) into living tissue by the process of anabolism; metabolize constructively.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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To thrust or throw forcefully into a substance or place:
To engulf is defined as to completely cover, surround, or overwhelm.
To baptize by submerging in water
Steep means to soak in liquid.
To involve oneself or become occupied; participate:
To understand.
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To gain knowledge from a bad experience.
To comprehend; understand
To give or make (a toast).
To embody is defined as to represent in bodily form or to bring together as a whole.
To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
(Obsolete) To cut off from access or communication.
To have inflicted or imposed on oneself:
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To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.
To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
To remove or block from personal memory or public remembrance. Often used with out :
To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
To pass into or through and affect every part of; penetrate and spread through
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To turn over; upset:
To dominate or use to the exclusion of others:
To harvest and thresh with a combine
To provide work to (someone) for pay:
emits (antonym)
To give or send out (matter or energy):
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expels (antonym)
To dismiss or send away by authority; deprive of rights, membership, etc.
ejects (antonym)
Eject is defined as to release or give off.
discharges (antonym)
To throw off; send forth; emit
spews (antonym)
To vomit.
dissipates (antonym)
To be dissipated; disperse or vanish
disperses (antonym)
To separate (light) into spectral rays.
exudes (antonym)
To discharge or emit (a liquid or gas, for example) gradually.
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vomits (antonym)
To discharge or throw out with force or in copious quantities; belch forth
distracts (antonym)
To draw in conflicting directions; create conflict or confusion in
misunderstands (antonym)
To fail to understand correctly; misinterpret
understands (related)
To learn something indirectly or secondhand; gather.
gives (related)
To yield or produce:
accepts (related)
To endure resignedly or patiently:
excites (related)
(--- Physics) To raise (an atom, for example) to a higher energy level.
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