imbibe
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪmˈbaɪb/
imbibe (imbibes, present participle imbibing; past and past participle imbibed)
- To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
- (figuratively) To take in; absorb.
- to imbibe knowledge
- 2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico 2007, p. 219:
- Like the late Dr Falk (d. 1782), Grabianka was a native of Podolia, where Sabbatian influences were strong among local Jews, and he imbibed many of their notions.
- Portuguese: embeber
- Russian: перенимать
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