Meaning & use
Ingesting
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Taking food, drink, or another substance into the body by swallowing or absorbing it.
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The child was rushed to the hospital after ingesting a small battery.
The software is capable of ingesting large volumes of data every second.
A note on using this word
Beyond biology, "ingesting" is widely used in computing to describe a system taking in and processing raw data.
Words with a similar meaning
consumingabsorbing
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Words with an opposite meaning
expelling
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