Synonyms of the word imbibe


IMBIBEABSORB - ASSIMILATE - CONSUME - DRAW - DRINK - HAVE - INGEST - SUCK - TAKE

imbibe

  • v. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
  • v. (figuratively) To take in; absorb.

absorb

  • v. (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
  • v. (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically…
  • v. (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it, as.
  • v. (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
  • v. (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
  • v. (transitive) Assimilate mentally.
  • v. (transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
  • v. (transitive) To defray the costs.
  • v. (transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.

assimilate

  • v. To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
  • v. To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind.
  • v. To absorb a group of people into a community.
  • v. To compare a thing to something similar.
  • v. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
  • n. Something that is or has been assimilated.

consume

  • v. (transitive) To use up.
  • v. (transitive) To use (without using up).
  • v. (transitive) To eat.
  • v. (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
  • v. (transitive) To destroy completely.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.

draw

  • v. (heading) To move or develop something.
  • v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
  • v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
  • v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
  • v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
  • v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
  • v. To disembowel.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
  • v. A random selection process.
  • v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
  • v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
  • v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
  • v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
  • n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
  • n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
  • n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
  • n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
  • n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
  • n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
  • n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
  • n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
  • n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
  • n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
  • n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
  • n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

drink

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
  • v. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
  • v. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
  • v. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
  • n. A beverage.
  • n. A (served) alcoholic beverage.
  • n. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
  • n. A type of beverage (usually mixed).
  • n. Alcoholic beverages in general.
  • n. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
  • n. (uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink.

have

  • v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
  • v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
  • v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
  • v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
  • v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
  • v. (transitive) To give birth to.
  • v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
  • v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
  • v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
  • v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
  • v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
  • v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
  • v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
  • v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
  • v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
  • v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
  • v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
  • v. To trick, to deceive.
  • v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
  • v. (transitive) To host someone.

ingest

  • v. To take into the body, as for digestion.

suck

  • n. An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
  • n. (vulgar) Fellatio of a penis.
  • n. (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who won't go along, especially out of spite; a crybaby…
  • n. A sycophant, especially a child.
  • v. (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
  • v. (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
  • v. (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
  • v. (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
  • v. (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb…
  • v. (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
  • v. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used…

take

  • v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
  • v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To remove.
  • v. (transitive) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
  • v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
  • v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
  • v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
  • v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
  • v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
  • v. (transitive) To consume.
  • v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
  • v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
  • v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
  • v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
  • v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
  • v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
  • v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
  • v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
  • v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
  • v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
  • v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
  • v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
  • v. (transitive) To require.
  • v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
  • v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
  • v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
  • v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
  • v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
  • v. (transitive) To move into.
  • v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
  • v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
  • v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
  • v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
  • v. (transitive) To deal with.
  • v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
  • v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
  • v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
  • v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
  • v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
  • v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
  • v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
  • n. The or an act of taking.
  • n. Something that is taken; a haul.
  • n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
  • n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
  • n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
  • n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
  • n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
  • n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
  • n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
  • n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

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