transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪmbaɪb ]
( imbibes, imbibing, imbibed)
1.
To imbibe alcohol means to drink it. ( FORMAL, often HUMOROUS )
They were used to imbibing enormous quantities of alcohol...
No one believes that current nondrinkers should be encouraged to start imbibing.
VERB : V n , V
2.
If you imbibe ideas or arguments, you listen to them, accept them, and believe that they are right or true. ( FORMAL )
As a clergyman’s son he’d imbibed a set of mystical beliefs from the cradle.
= absorb
VERB : V n