imbibe
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To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.
To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors.
To saturate; to imbue.
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.
All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension.
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.
Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?
President Trump is too set in his ways and independent-minded to imbibe the layers of debased semiotics with which government lawyers routinely rape reality.