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- Dictionaryingest/ɪnˈdʒɛst/
verb
- 1. take (food, drink, or another substance) into the body by swallowing or absorbing it: "lead will poison anyone if enough is ingested"
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to take food or liquid into the stomach: These mushrooms are poisonous if ingested. (Definition of ingest from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of ingest. ingest. However, it seems unlikely that marine mammals would have the opportunity to ingest such fish with any frequency.
The meaning of INGEST is to take in for or as if for digestion. How to use ingest in a sentence.
When you ingest something, you swallow it or otherwise consume it. If you don't ingest enough iron, you'll feel tired and weak and you'll look pale. Trees ingest carbon dioxide, and humans ingest the oxygen that trees in turn produce.
Ingest definition: to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).. See examples of INGEST used in a sentence.
to take food or liquid into the stomach: These mushrooms are poisonous if ingested. (Definition of ingest from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of ingest. ingest. And some of the results of that work have been ingested by humans for years, often in the form of life-saving drugs.
When animals or plants ingest a substance, they take it into themselves, for example by eating or absorbing it. [ technical ] ...side effects occurring in fish that ingest this substance.
ingest something to take food, drugs, etc. into your body, usually by swallowing (= making them go down your throat) Food is the major source of ingested bacteria. Grazing animals ingest dioxins through eating contaminated plants.
