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    The study indicates that when people imbibe can be as important as how much alcohol they consume. A woman who regularly has three-to-four drinks one night a week has an 80% higher risk of breast cancer than a woman who regularly has three-to-four weeks over the course of a week.
    imbibe = drink alcohol
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    I spent the whole night imbibing short YouTube videos of cats.
    imbibing = taking in (watching)
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    She imbibed through the holidays, but gave up drinking as a New Year's resolution.
    imbibed = drank alcohol
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    He imbibed wine and brandy sling, and on an expedition "up into Cambridge town," after a stop to sample "some flip" (a sweet, potent mix of liquor, beer, and sugar), he made for another tavern, the Punch Bowl, "where there was fiddling and dancing in great plenty....I came home a little before daylight in."†  (source)
    imbibed = taken in; or took in
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    Goblin-made blades imbibe only that which strengthens them — Harry, that sword's impregnated with basilisk venom!†  (source)
    imbibe = take in
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    Hester could only account for the child's character—and even then most vaguely and imperfectly—by recalling what she herself had been during that momentous period while Pearl was imbibing her soul from the spiritual world, and her bodily frame from its material of earth.  (source)
    imbibing = filling
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    In the corner to the left are the three musicians, upon a little platform, toiling heroically to make some impression upon the hubbub; also the babies, similarly occupied, and an open window whence the populace imbibes the sights and sounds and odors.†  (source)
    imbibes = takes in
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    "Yes, my boy," said Mr. Morrow in a hushed voice suggesting awe and mystery "This very potion offers its brave imbiber a bevy of benefits both strange and wonderful.†  (source)
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    He asked David Alexander to stay around Pollard as much as possible to keep him from overimbibing.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overimbibing means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    The spice, chiefly noted for its geriatric qualities, is mildly addictive when taken in small quantities, severely addictive when imbibed in quantities above two grams daily per seventy kilos of body weight.†  (source)
    imbibed = taken in; or took in
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    Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?†  (source)
    imbibe = take in
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    The men jacked the lid off the barrel, imbibing began, the pile of wood was set on fire, an Alabaman transformed a huge can into a drum, and inebriated men began dancing.†  (source)
    imbibing = taking in
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    Much that the white boy imbibes from his earliest social atmosphere forms the puzzling problems of the black boy's mature years.†  (source)
    imbibes = takes in
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