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ingest

[in-jest]

verb (used with object)

  1. to take, as food, into the body (egest ).

  2. Aeronautics.to draw (foreign matter) into the inlet of a jet engine, often causing damage to the engine.



ingest

/ ɪˈɛ /

verb

  1. to take (food or liquid) into the body

  2. (of a jet engine) to suck in (an object, a bird, etc)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ingestible adjective
  • ingestion noun
  • ingestive adjective
  • reingest verb (used with object)
  • uningested adjective
  • uningestive adjective
  • ˈپ adjective
  • ˈپDz noun
  • ˈپ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ingest1

First recorded in 1610–20; from Latin ingestus, past participle of ingerere “to throw or pour into”; in- 2, gest
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ingest1

C17: from Latin ingerere to put into, from in- ² + gerere to carry; see gest
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In the 2009 case, a flock of seagulls was ingested at 2,700ft – more than four times higher than the Air India flight.

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Said King, whose real name is Brian Johnson, is a massively muscled fitness influencer who built a nine-figure supplement company by promoting what he describes as an “ancestral lifestyle” revolving around ingesting raw offal.

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Small fish including anchovies and sardines ingest the toxic algae, which then bioaccumulate in larger marine mammals that eat the fish.

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That means fish, and marine mammals could mistake vapes for food and ingest poisonous chemicals.

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In early May, Bartkus engaged with a suicide discussion site, presenting data from his tests on ingesting weak doses of sodium nitrite or seeking to generate carbon monoxide within a car, alongside graphs and charts.

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