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What (who) is IMBIBE - definition
imbibe
MAGAZINE ABOUT BEVERAGES
User:Bhagood/Imbibe Magazine; Imbibe Magazine; Imbibe (magazine)
[?m'b??b]
¦ verb
1. formal or humorous drink (alcohol).
2. literary absorb (ideas or knowledge).
3. chiefly Botany absorb (water) into ultramicroscopic spaces or pores.
Derivatives
imbiber noun
imbibition ?mb?'b??(?)n noun (chiefly Botany).
Origin
ME: from L. imbibere, from in- 'in' + bibere 'to drink'.
imbibe
MAGAZINE ABOUT BEVERAGES
User:Bhagood/Imbibe Magazine; Imbibe Magazine; Imbibe (magazine)
(imbibes, imbibing, imbibed)
1.
To imbibe alcohol means to drink it. (FORMAL, often HUMOROUS)
They were used to imbibing enormous quantities of alcohol...
No one believes that current nondrinkers should be encouraged to start imbibing.
VERB: V n, V
2.
If you imbibe ideas or arguments, you listen to them, accept them, and believe that they are right or true. (FORMAL)
As a clergyman's son he'd imbibed a set of mystical beliefs from the cradle.
= absorb
VERB: V n
imbibe
MAGAZINE ABOUT BEVERAGES
User:Bhagood/Imbibe Magazine; Imbibe Magazine; Imbibe (magazine)
v. a.
1.
Absorb, take in, suck in, such up, swallow up.
2.
Receive, gather, acquire, gain, get, pick up.
Wikipedia
Imbibe
Imbibe is a magazine published in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is published six times a year.
Examples of use of IMBIBE
1. The Indian batsmen did not imbibe this truth with their morning coffee.
2. The problem, clearly, is not with alcohol per se, but with the person who imbibe it.
3. Empty vodka bottles are strewn along the embankment, although these serious fishermen do not imbibe.
4. The lofty ideals of republican egalitarianism that they imbibe at school only add insult to injury.
5. She wanted her young sons to ‘imbibe‘ as much of her presence as possible.