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imbibe

verb as in drink, often heavily

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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.

From Ozy

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.

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On this page you'll find 51 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to imbibe, such as: assimilate, guzzle, ingest, quaff, absorb, and belt.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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