| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Imbibe.[Websters]
2. To have blotted or quaffed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be ingrained. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have assimilated, soaked or infiltrated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be preoccupied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have swallowed or swigged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To be boozed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have absorbed or ingested. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To be occluded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have inhaled or inbreathed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb imbibe.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (imbibe) | 1. Take in, also metaphorically.[Wordnet]. 2. Take (gas, light or heat) into a solution.[Wordnet]. 3. Take in liquids.[Wordnet]. 4. Receive into the mind and retain; "Imbibe ethical principles".[Wordnet]. 5. 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.[Websters]. 6. To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors.[Websters]. 7. To saturate; to imbue.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: imbibing, imbibed, imbibes, imbiber, imbibers, imbibingly and imbibedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being ingrained.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being preoccupied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being occluded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being drunk or inebriated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being saturated or waterlogged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being forested. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being wooded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being timbered.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "IMBIBED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: IMBIBED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Drank in, as a fluid; absorbed; received into the mind and retained.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of imbibe. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: IMBIBED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Imbibed water | Chemistry | Moisture that is intimately associated (not freely available for movement) with the cell wall by molecular sorption. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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