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imbibe

/im-bahyb/US // ɪmˈbaɪb //UK // (ɪmˈbaɪb) //

吸取,吸收,饮用,沉浸于

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    im·bibed, im·bib·ing.

    • : to consume by drinking; drink: He imbibed great quantities of iced tea.
    • : to absorb or soak up, as water, light, or heat: Plants imbibe moisture from the soil.
    • : to take or receive into the mind, as knowledge, ideas, or the like: to imbibe a sermon; to imbibe beautiful scenery.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    im·bibed, im·bib·ing.

    • : to drink, especially alcoholic beverages: Just a soft drink for me—I don't imbibe.
    • : to absorb liquid or moisture.
    • : Archaic. to soak or saturate; imbue.

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Examples

  • One of the main consequences of imbibing alcohol is dehydration—your liver uses a lot of the water in your body to process and break down alcohol, so all other organs, including your skin, lose out.

  • The show also offers the specter of stars imbibing at dinner tables, a good fit for a viral age.

  • Some are trying to combat concerns of customers unwittingly imbibing too much with chemometrics — science-based lab reporting that serves like nutritional facts for weed.

  • When it was time to step into Holiday’s shoes she researched thoroughly and even went as far as attempting to transform herself into the singer by imbibing and chain smoking.

  • Stories are powerful because they are vehicles for imbibing moral worldviews.

  • OK, so he used to imbibe to excess, but he no longer partakes.

  • At the very least, they establish a tone and mindset that rank-and-file liberals imbibe and accept.

  • Single or spoken for, everyone has reason enough to imbibe on the most loved/hated holiday around.

  • Anneli Rufus on 15 stats that predict your propensity to imbibe.

  • Sutherland is perhaps the most righteous in his intoxication of all the celebrities known to conspicuously imbibe.

  • Nothing was more natural than that two such women should imbibe the deepest tenderness for each other.

  • The peasants imbibe a little noisy merriment at the tavern, but their helpmates always have grave, stern countenances.

  • M. de Voltaire, say they, never could imbibe these Sentiments in France.

  • It may be truly said, with regard to those who imbibe the spirit of their Master, "no man liveth to himself."

  • Animal miasmata, like all other poison, become more active in proportion to the quantity which we imbibe.