Imbibe: Definition and part of speech

Imbibe

  1. v. t. To saturate; to imbue.
  2. v. t. To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.
  3. v. t. To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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