IMBIBE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.

2.
v.

To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors.

3.
v.

To saturate; to imbue. [Obs.] "Earth, imbibed with . . . acid." Sir I. Newton.


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