imbibe

Other forms of imbibe

past tense

imbibed·

present participle

imbibing·

third person

imbibes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about imbibe

What does imbibe mean?

imbibe means "take in, also metaphorically". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in imbibe?

imbibe has 2 syllables: im-bibe. The stress falls on "bibe". In IPA it is /ɪmˈbaɪb/.

What is another word for imbibe?

Close synonyms include absorb, suck, soak up, sop up, suck up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is imbibe a common word?

imbibe is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.