imbibe

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
    — Perhaps in the case of the vodka-drinking peasant it is this weekly parboil which saves his life and postpones the dreadful day when the constant imbibing of unlimited quantities of the deadly liquor must be paid for.
  2. To take in; absorb. figuratively
    — to imbibe knowledge
  3. To steep; to cause to absorb liquid. obsolete,transitive

词形变化

imbibes present,singular,third-person imbibing participle,present imbibed participle,past imbibed past

词汇关系

上位词
ingest
衍生词
imbibable imbibement imbiber imbibition preimbibe reimbibe unimbibed

词源

From Middle English imbiben, from Latin imbibō, from im- + bibō (“to drink”) (whence also beverage), from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-, whence also potable, potion.
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