ingest

Other forms of ingest

past tense

ingested·

present participle

ingesting·

third person

ingests·

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 ingest

What does ingest mean?

ingest means "serve oneself to, or consume regularly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ingest?

ingest has 2 syllables: in-gest. The stress falls on "gest". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdʒɛst/.

What is another word for ingest?

Close synonyms include consume, take in, take, have, absorb. 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 ingest a common word?

ingest 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.

What rhymes with ingest?

4 words rhyme with ingest. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.