Definition of "imbibes" [imbibes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbibe. (verb)

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• "I have not imbibed in a very long time, I tell him, and fear that such a thing will give me gas, but he persuades me to come into an establishment he knows and to bend an elbow with a pint of something pale and weak while he imbibes a beverage of a more muscular variety."
• "Vampire tale 'Let Me In' successfully imbibes the essence of the Swedish original."
• "The typical parent, at all income levels, imbibes the fiction that it is their responsibility to take away the struggle in their children's lives."