(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