different between imbibe vs imbibing

English

Etymology

From Middle English imbiben, from Latin imbib?, from im- + bib? (“to drink”) (whence also beverage), from Proto-Italic *pib?, from Proto-Indo-European *peh?-, whence also potable, potion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ba?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Verb

imbibe (third-person singular simple present imbibes, present participle imbibing, simple past and past participle imbibed)

1. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
2. (figuratively) To take in; absorb.

   to imbibe knowledge

   • 2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico 2007, p. 219:

     Like the late Dr Falk (d. 1782), Grabianka was a native of Podolia, where Sabbatian influences were strong among local Jews, and he imbibed many of their notions.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To steep; to cause to absorb liquid.

Hyponyms

• ingest

Derived terms

• imbiber
• imbibement
• imbibition

Related terms

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: imbibent, imbibes

Verb

imbibe

1. first-person singular present indicative of imbiber
2. third-person singular present indicative of imbiber
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of imbiber
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of imbiber
5. second-person singular imperative of imbiber

Latin

Verb

imbibe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of imbib?

Middle English

Verb

imbibe

1. Alternative form of imbiben

English

Verb

imbibing

1. present participle of imbibe

Noun

imbibing (plural imbibings)

1. The act by which something is imbibed.
   • 2001, Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian chronicles (page 73)

     Many women neglected the daily herbal baths and imbibings which helped pelvic dilation.