1. to take food, drink, or other substances into the body by swallowing or absorbing
2. to take in and process information or data
Usage: figurative

Examples

• The patient was told not to ingest any food before surgery.
• Fish can ingest harmful chemicals from polluted water.
• The medicine should be ingested with plenty of water.
• Children sometimes ingest small objects that can be dangerous.
• The computer system can ingest large amounts of data quickly.
• Students need time to ingest all the information from the lecture.
• The software ingests files from multiple sources automatically.