Imbibing Synonyms and Antonyms

Take (gas, light or heat) into a solution
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. assimilating
  2. digesting
  3. absorbing
Take in, also metaphorically
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. soaking
  2. drinking
  3. drawing
  4. tippling
  5. swigging
  6. swallowing
  7. absorbing
  8. quaffing
  9. partaking
  10. sucking
  11. downing
  12. consuming
  13. assimilating
Drink heavily
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. belting
  2. ingesting
  3. quaffing
  4. swigging
  5. supping
  6. drinking
Antonyms:
  1. abstaining
To take alcoholic liquor, especially excessively or habitually
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lushing
  2. boozing
  3. soaking
  4. nipping
  5. tippling
  6. drinking
The act of consuming liquids
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. drinking
  2. imbibition

Words Related to Imbibing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Imbibing Sentence Examples

  • The same fear of imbibing the irrational soul of animals, and thereby reinforcing the lower appetites and instincts of the human being, inspired the vegetarianism of Apollonius of Tyana and of the Jewish Therapeutae, who in their sacred meals were careful to have a table free from blood-containing meats; and the fear of absorbing the animal's psychic qualities equally motived the Jewish and early Christian rule against eating things strangled.

  • The Asterocheridae, which have a good swimming capacity, except in the case of Cancerilla tubulata (Dalyell), lead a semi-parasitic life on echinoderms, sponges, &c., imbibing their food.

  • Both in the gum and in the boiled-off state silk has the peculiar property of imbibing certain metallic salts largely and combining very firmly with them, the fibre remaining to external appearance undiminished in strength and lustre, but much added to in size and weight.

  • Poole lived in Cairo from 1842 to 1849, thus imbibing an early taste for Egyptian antiquities.

  • The boy grew up amid the poor, coarse surroundings of the German peasant life, imbibing its simple beliefs.

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