ingesting

verb

present participle of ingest
1
as in consuming
to take in as food claims that the average person ingests considerably more calories than is necessary or desirable

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2
as in swallowing
to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat ingested the foul-tasting medicine with only the greatest difficulty

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Recent Examples of ingesting See affected product Symptoms of salmonella poisoning Symptoms of salmonella poisoning usually start six hours to six days after ingesting the bacteria. — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026 Rather than querying a database or ingesting raw, uninterpreted telemetry streams, an AI model can use an in-memory digital twin to instantly access the full state of a live system, with all data reachable in microseconds. — William Bain, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Websites for ayahuasca retreats highlight the emotional and spiritual benefits of the nonstop vomiting that comes from ingesting the plant mixture. — T.m. Brown, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026 Scottish immigrant Josh Lamb even committed suicide, ingesting cyanide, after seeing his name in the newspaper. — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026 Police said Lobianco sat in his car for 20 minutes in a 7-Eleven parking lot before the crash, allegedly ingesting cannabis. — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026 Numerous publishers are suing AI labs for ingesting copyrighted texts. — Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026 To avoid getting Vibrio vulnificus, the health department suggests avoiding raw oysters or other raw shellfish and cooking shellfish like oysters, clams, mussels thoroughly before ingesting them. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026 Most people infected with Salmonella suffer diarrhea, fever, and stomach cramps, starting 6 hours to 6 days after ingesting the bacteria, the CDC says. — Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 6 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingesting
  1. consuming
  2. swallowing
  3. eating
  4. sipping
  5. drinking
  6. chewing
Verb
  • Studies have proven that regularly consuming whole grains has a positive effect on health, reducing certain markers that indicate chronic inflammation.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The cooking process greatly reduces that risk, as does storing the cooked garlic and oil at a temperature below 38° and consuming them within 2 weeks.
    — Jeremy Fox, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of consuming
Verb
  • Popular media and Southern folklore frequently claimed that kudzu was swallowing 150,000 new acres every year and had overtaken anywhere from 7 to 9 million acres across the region.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The cause of the powerful torrents of floodwater that carved a devastating path through Nepal and Tibet — swallowing towns, roads and bridges — is not yet clear, but Nepal is a hotspot for climate disasters as the planet heats up.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of swallowing
Verb
  • So far, three dogs have fallen ill after eating contaminated Oma’s Pride food.
    — Julia Hawkins, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026
  • And now several dozen people across 15 states have become ill after eating alfalfa sprouts in a new outbreak that involves salmonella and E coli.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of eating
Verb
  • Somewhere on a porch in rural Tennessee, the late Dolly Parton may have held up a dainty martini glass, sipping away as the orange sun set behind the Great Smokies.
    — Angela George, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This quiet, cozy season is ideal for wandering the Gaslight District’s 100-some shops and galleries and sipping through the Petoskey Wine Trail.
    — Taryn Shorr-Mckee, Midwest Living, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of sipping
Verb
  • Being the sober friend has never meant judging anyone else for drinking.
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Indigenous people in the region have used yaupon holly in tea since well before the rise of Etowah (and someone is probably drinking some right now).
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of drinking
Verb
  • After years of stomach-gurgling, nail-chewing anxiety, this was an entirely different Arsenal experience.
    — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Khat is typically chewed like tobacco, with individuals retaining it in the cheek and chewing intermittently to release the active drug, which then produces stimulant-like effects.
    — Bryan Lynn, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of chewing

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“Ingesting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingesting. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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