(~s, imbibing, ~d)
1.
To ~ 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 ~ 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 ~d a set of mystical beliefs from the cradle.
= absorb
VERB: V n