Imbibe

Definitions: Imbibe

Imbibe

Verb

1. Take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words".

2. Take into solution, as of gas, light, or heat.

3. Take in liquids.

4. Receive into the mind and retain; "Imbibe ethical principles".

Date "imbibe" was first used: some time around 1395. (references)

Note: Imbibe \Im*bibe"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Imbibed; present participle verb or noun Imbibing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Imbibe

Synonyms: absorb (v), assimilate (v), draw (v), drink (v), soak up (v), sop up (v), suck (v), suck up (v), take in (v), take up (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Belief	Think, hold; take, take it; opine, be of opinion, conceive, trow, ween, fancy, apprehend; have it, hold a belief, possess, entertain a belief, adopt a belief, imbibe a belief, embrace a belief, get hold of a belief, hazard, foster, nurture a belief, cherish a belief, have an opinion, hold an opinion, possess, entertain an opinion, adopt an opinion, imbibe an opinion, embrace an opinion, get hold of an opinion, hazard an opinion, foster an opinion, nurture an opinion, cherish an opinion; n.
Learning	Verb: learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning.
Reception	Verb: give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink; (food).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Imbibe

English words defined with "imbibe": Carbonic acid ♦ Enbibe, Engrossing hand ♦ fuller's earth ♦ Imbibed ♦ To suck in. (references)

Etymologies containing "imbibe": Enbibe. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I downloaded this little baby off the Net. I will know exactly how many spirits I may imbibe without affecting my judgment or my behavior. (Can't Hardly Wait; writing credit: Deborah Kaplan; Harry Elfont)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Suction; suck; sup; drink; vacuum; inhale; imbibe; .
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"Imbibe" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "Imbibe" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	63.64%	7	133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)	27.27%	3	202,518
Noun (singular)	9.09%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

Expression using "imbibe": imbibe knowledge. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "imbibe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zbruj, thith (absorb, draw, draw down, drink, immerse, inhale, nipple, pull at, snuff, soak, soak up, sop, suck, suck in, take up), pi (boose, booze, bouse, consume, drink, liquor, lush, take a drink, take to drink, tipple, tope), përvetësoj (absorb, adopt, annex, appropriate, assimilate, digest, embezzle, embrace, form, misappropriate, mop up, peculate, pocket, pre empt), ngulit në mendje. (various references)

Arabic		‏تشرب (absorb, blot, drink), ‏إمتص (absorb, drink, drink in, soak up), ‏إستوعب (absorb, assimilate, compass, digest, get around, ingest, realize, stomach, suck, swallow, take in), ‏شرب نخب فلان, ‏شرب (bib, drain, drink, impregnate, infuse, ingrain, inoculate, quaff, stain, steep). (various references)

Bulgarian		къркам (bib, guzzle, neck), възприемам (digest, espouse, perceive), поглъщам (absorb, adsorb, devour, engorge, engross, engulf, ingulf, ingurgitate, pouch, prepossess, soak, soak up, suck, suck down, suck in, suck up, swallow, swamp, take down, take in, take over, whelm), попивам (absorb, soak), пия (consume, discuss, drink, guzzle, have, hobnob, lush, neck, take). (various references)

Czech		vstřebávat (soak up), popíjet (carouse, sup, tipple), osvojovat si, nasávat (suck in). (various references)

Farsi		فروبردن (Absorb, Aspire, Devour, Gulp, Immerse, Plunge, Ram, Swallow), نوشیدن (Bib), تحلیل بردن (Absorb, Stub, Undermine, Useup), خیساندن (Drench, Poach, Soak, Sop, Steep), جذب کردن (Absorb, Amuse, Attract, Magnet, Sop, Sponge), اشباع کردن (Glut, Imbue, Indoctrinate, Inundate, Steep, Suffuse), درکشیدن (Absorb). (various references)

Finnish		imeä sisäänsä (absorb, take up). (various references)

French		boire, assimiler, absorber. (various references)

German		aufsaugen (absorb, intake, resorb, sip, soak up, suck in, take up, to absorb, to resorb, vacuum up). (various references)

Greek		ροφώ (gulp, sip), εμποτίζομαι (soak), απορροφώ (absorb, engross, mop, occlude, soak up). (various references)

Hebrew		לשתות (drink), לקלוט (absorb, comprehend, merge, occlude, receive, take in), לספו�' (absorb, adsorb, blot, sop up, sponge). (various references)

Hungarian		magába szív (drink, to imbibe, to incept, to soak, to suck), felszív (adsorb, pump up, soak up, to absorb, to drink up, to imbibe, to incept, to snuff, to soak up, to sop, to suck, to suck up, to swallow up, to take up), belélegez (inhale, inspire, to imbibe, to inspire). (various references)

Italian		bere (drink, drinking, have, sop up, swallow), assorbire (absorb, adsorb, assimilate, blot, engross, merge, preoccupy, soak up, sop up, sponge, suck), assimilare (absorb, assimilate, digest). (various references)

Manx		soo (absorption, blot, blot as paper, exhaust, exhaustion, extract, extraction; goodness of food; berry, extraction; goodness; berry, jam, preserve, sap, sip; blotting, soak, soak up, soaking, suck, sucking, suction, tipple, tippling), iu (drink, quaff, tipple). (various references)

Norwegian		drikke (drink), absorbere (absorb). (various references)

Pig Latin		imbibeay.(various references)

Portuguese		inalar (breathe, inhale), impregnar (engrained, imbue, impregnate, interfuse, leavening, line of action, penetrate, pervade, saturate), encastoar (set), embeber (absorb, Dunk, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, soak, steep), beber (absorb, bear, carouse, consume, down, drink, drink to, drink to excess, enduring, filler, fuddle, fudge, inspired, lushed, soak up, take, tipple, tolerate), aspirar (ache, aspirate, aspire, aspire to, breathe, draw, drew, exhaust a well, hope for, inhale, inspire, pump, sniff, yearn), absorver (absorb, absorbing, adsorb, assimilate, drink away, engorge, engross, impregnate, occlude, occupy, sip, soak, soak up, swallow). (various references)

Romanian		inspira (draw, inculcate, inform, infuse, inhale, inspire, inspire with, motive, suggest), inhala (inhale), sorbi (absorb, devour, drain, drink, drink in, quaff, sip, sup, swallow), se îmbiba (sponge, steep), bea (bib, booze, carouse, consume, drink, drink to excess, finish, have a drink, sip, swig, take, take up), absorbi (absorb, aspirate, captivate, engage, engross, fascinate, inhale, soak, sponge, suck). (various references)

Russian		всасывать (absorb, adsorb), впитывать (absorb, drink in, soak in, soak up, sop up), вдыхать (breathe, breathe in, drink, inbreathe, inhale, inspire), поглощать (absorb, consume, devour, eat up, engorge, engross, engulf, gobble, ingurgitate, merge, preoccupy, whelm). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		upiti (absorb, soak, soak up, sop), upijati (absorb, blot, drink in), natapati. (various references)

Spanish		embeber (soak up). (various references)

Swedish		insupa (draw in, drink in, suck). (various references)

Thai		�"ู�"ซึม (imbue with), �"ื่ม (drink). (various references)

Turkish		içmek (belt down, drink, drinking, eat, have a drink, indulge, knock back, propose, pull, slosh, slosh down, swig), içine çekmek (engulf, inhale, inspire, sop up, suck, suck in, suck up, swallow, swallow up), kapmak (catch, clutch, dispossess, grab, grasp, nab, poach, scoop up, seize, shut, shut in, snap up, snatch, snatch up, swoop up, twitch, whip, whip away, whip from), kafa çekmek, öğrenmek (ascertain, come to know, elicit, get to know, get wise to, hear, inform oneself of smth., learn, make acquainted with, make oneself acquainted with, master, school oneself to, study, wise up to, wit). (various references)

Ukranian		усмоктувати (absorb, adsorb, sink in, soak up, suck, suck up), сприймати (apperceive, feel, receive, take), вдихати (breathe, breathe in, inhale, respire). (various references)

Welsh		sugno (absorb, suck). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	imbibere, imbibo, sugatis, sugent, sugentem, sugentes, sugeret, suges, suget, sugetis. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	embiber. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "imbibe": imbibed, imbiber, imbibers, imbibes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Imbibe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: embibe, Imbaba, imbib, imbibc, imbibs, imbiby, imbide, imbile, imbube, imkibe, inbibe, inbile, Mizieb. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-e-i-i-m"
	-3 letters: bib, ebb, mib.
	-4 letters: be, bi, em, me, mi.
	Words containing the letters "b-b-e-i-i-m"
	+1 letter: imbibed, imbiber, imbibes.
	+2 letters: imbibers.
	+5 letters: divebombing, firebombing.
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