Definitions for ingests

ingests in·gest

Spelling: [in-jest]
IPA: /ɪnˈdʒɛst/

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

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in ingests (eginsst).

Definitions for ingests

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 ingests

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

Examples for ingests

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for ingests
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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