Other forms: ingested, ingesting, ingests
To ingest is to take food or liquid into the body. Ingest the poison, ingested accidentally, safe to ingest.
It is the clinical word and it means only getting it in — digestion and absorption are what follow — which is why poisons information services ask exactly what was ingested and when. In computing, to ingest data is to take it into a system, borrowed straight from this. Note that the Latin means to carry in.
1verbingestTo take food or liquid into the body.
“The child accidentally ingested some cleaning liquid and was rushed to hospital.”
2verbdataTo take data into a system.
“The new system can ingest data from every shop's tills each night.”
ingest is a taking in.
Latin ingerere is in plus gerere, to carry. Digest, gesture and congestion come from the same carrying.
Latin
ingerō — to carry in
English, today
ingest
From Latin ingerō (“to carry in”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Sharper Verbs