Meaning & use
Imbibes
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Drinks, especially alcohol, or figuratively absorbs ideas, information, or values.
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He imbibes a glass of wine with dinner most evenings.
As a child, she imbibes the values her grandmother taught her about hard work.
A note on using this word
From Latin imbibere, 'to drink in'; the figurative sense of absorbing knowledge or ideas is just as old as the literal drinking sense.
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