verb
- to drink, especially alcoholic beverages
- to absorb or take in ideas, knowledge, or influences
Usage: formal
Examples
- The guests imbibed champagne at the wedding reception.
- He tends to imbibe too much at office parties.
- Children imbibe values from their parents and teachers.
- She imbibed the local culture during her year abroad.
- The students imbibed knowledge from their professor’s lectures.
- Plants imbibe water through their roots.
- After work, they would imbibe at the local tavern.