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Ingesting

To take a substance (e.g. food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.

📖 Definitions of "Ingesting"

verb

1
To take a substance (e.g. food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
2
To bring or import into a system.

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Word	Definition
consumeverb	(transitive) To eat.
absorbverb	(transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
assimilateverb	(transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
takeverb	(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
take inverb	(transitive) To receive.
haveverb	(transitive) To possess, own.
consumingnoun	consumption; the process by which something is consumed
eatingnoun	The act of ingesting food.
feedingnoun	(uncountable) The act or process of giving food.
intakeverb	The quantity taken in.
interferingnoun	interference
swallowingnoun	The act of swallowing.
digestingverb	(transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
digestedverb	capable of undergoing digestion
consumedverb	construed with with Full of, exuding (also figuratively).
indigested	Not digested in the stomach; undigested.
devouringverb	The act by which something is devoured.
swallowedverb	completely enclosed or swallowed up
absorbingverb	Engrossing, that sustains someone's interest.
inhalingverb	inhalation

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