Definitions for ingest

ingest in·gest

Spelling: [in-jest]
IPA: /ɪnˈdʒɛst/

Ingest is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in ingest (eginst).

Definitions for ingest

verb (used with object)

  1. to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
  2. Aeronautics. to draw (foreign matter) into the inlet of a jet engine, often causing damage to the engine.

Origin of ingest

1610-20; Latin ingestus past participle of ingerere to throw or pour into. See in-2, gest

Examples for ingest

So if you do get snake bite or ingest poison, the Bible says you should go see your priest.

Paul also begins his book tour, planning a schedule with what drugs he will ingest “before twenty-two of his twenty-five events.”

If what you hear in the background sounds like somebody gagging, it is indeed myself, forced to ingest some of my own words.

"Almost us ingest too many last dark," Geck gave what Hanlon knew was a shamefaced laugh.

The skink of course lacks the ophidian capacity to ingest relatively enormous objects.

They are able to migrate readily from place to place and to ingest small bodies, as bacteria.

Cholera and typhoid fever are transmitted when I ingest contaminated food or drink.

As I fretted over whether it was safe for her ingest the body paint, she extolled its benefits.

But still there are those who ingest the campaign message, that it takes a village to reelect a president.

The next day, the enforcer made the girl “to ingest pills designed to induce spontaneous abortion.”

Word Value for ingest
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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