Imbibed
[ɪm'baɪbd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Imbibe
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Examples
- Egdon was her Hades, and since coming there she had imbibed much of what was dark in its tone, though inwardly and eternally unreconciled thereto. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They greedily imbibed this belief; and their over-weening credulity even rendered them eager to make converts to the same faith. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This, repeated twenty times, will so clear them of the perspirable matter they have imbibed, as to permit your sleeping well for some time afterward. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The plague I am told is in Constantinople, perhaps I have imbibed its effluvia--perhaps disease is the real cause of my prognostications. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At Alton he stepped out of the carriage at his servant's request and imbibed some of the ale for which the place is famous. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You have imbibed French principles. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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