ingest something to take food, drugs, etc. into your body, usually by swallowing (= making them go down your throat) Food is the major source of ingested bacteria.
ingest (third-person singular simple present ingests, present participle ingesting, simple past and past participle ingested) (transitive) To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
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