IMBIBING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of consuming liquids

Synonyms:

drinking; imbibing; imbibition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("imbibing" is a kind of...):

consumption; ingestion; intake; uptake (the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imbibing"):

gulping; guzzling; swilling (the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly)

potation (the act of drinking (especially an alcoholic drink))

Derivation:

imbibe (take in liquids)

-ing form of the verb imbibe