[ɪmˈbʌɪb], (Verb)

Definitions:
- drink (alcohol)
(e.g: they were imbibing far too many pitchers of beer)

- absorb or assimilate (ideas or knowledge)
(e.g: if one does not imbibe the culture one cannot succeed)

- (especially of seeds) absorb (water) into ultramicroscopic spaces or pores


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Origin:
late Middle English (in the senses ‘absorb or cause to absorb moisture’ and ‘take into solution’): from Latin imbibere, from in- ‘in’ + bibere ‘to drink’