INGESTION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
   Synonym(s)
   • consumption (what does consumption mean?)
   • intake (what does intake mean?)
   • uptake (what does uptake mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) ingestion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • bodily process (what does bodily process mean?)
   • body process (what does body process mean?)
   • bodily function (what does bodily function mean?)
   • activity (what does activity mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • eating (what does eating mean?)
   • feeding (what does feeding mean?)
   • swallow (what does swallow mean?)
   • drink (what does drink mean?)
   • deglutition (what does deglutition mean?)
   • sucking (what does sucking mean?)
   • suck (what does suck mean?)
   • suction (what does suction mean?)
   • drinking (what does drinking mean?)
   • imbibing (what does imbibing mean?)
   • imbibition (what does imbibition mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • consume (what does consume mean?)
   • ingest (what does ingest mean?)
   • take in (what does take in mean?)
   • take (what does take mean?)
   • have (what does have mean?)
   • consume (what does consume mean?)
   • ingest (what does ingest mean?)
   • take in (what does take in mean?)
   • take (what does take mean?)
   • have (what does have mean?)