imbibe

See also: imbibé

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Borrowed from Old French imbiber, from Latin imbibō, from im- + bibō (“to drink”) (whence also beverage), from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-, whence also potable, potion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbaɪb/
• Rhymes: -aɪb

Verb

1. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
2. (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.

Hyponyms

• ingest

Derived terms

• imbiber
• imbibement
• imbibition

Translations

drink

• Armenian: ըմպել (hy) (əmpel)
• Bulgarian: пия (bg) (pija), изпивам (bg) (izpivam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 饮 (zh), 喝 (zh) (hē)

• Czech: nasávat
• Dutch: tot zich nemen, nuttigen (nl), drinken (nl)
• Finnish: juoda (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: assorbire (it)
• Korean: 마시다 (ko) (masida)
• Polish: pić (pl)
• Portuguese: beber (pt)
• Romanian: bea (ro)
• Russian: пить (ru) (pitʹ), принима́ть (ru) (prinimátʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: deoghail
• Spanish: beber (es)

take in

• Bulgarian: поемам (bg) (poemam), поглъщам (bg) (poglǎštam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吸收 (zh) (xīshōu), 吸取 (zh) (xīqǔ), 吸入 (zh) (xīrù)

• Czech: nasát, vstřebat
• Dutch: tot zich nemen, opnemen (nl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: omaksua (fi), imeä itseensä
• Korean: 흡수하다 (ko) (heupsuhada)
• Portuguese: embeber (pt)
• Romanian: îmbiba (ro)
• Russian: перенимать (ru) (perenimatʹ), поглоща́ть (ru) (pogloščátʹ)

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: imbibent, imbibes

Verb

imbibe

1. first-person singular present indicative of imbiber
2. third-person singular present indicative of imbiber
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of imbiber
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of imbiber
5. second-person singular imperative of imbiber

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) imbibe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of imbibō