ingest

About 0.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
2. verb To cause (an undesired object or fluid) to enter the engine, generally via the intake.

   The plane's engine ingested a large bird and flamed out.

3. verb To bring or import into a system.
4. noun The process of importing data or other material into a system.

Similar words

consume absorb assimilate take take in have swallow eat load consuming

Often followed by

the and a food it them large more or

Word family

ingested ingestible ingesting ingestive ingests