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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun ingestion has 1 sense

• ingestion(n = noun.act) consumption, intake, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating); Array
has particulars: eating, feeding, deglutition, drink, swallow, suck, sucking, suction, drinking, imbibing, imbibition
is a kind of activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process
Derived form verb ingest₁

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THESAURUS

ingestion

ablation, absorption, appetite, assimilation, attrition, bile, burning up, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chewing, consumption, cropping, deglutition, depletion, devouring, devourment, dieting, digestion, digestive system, dining, drain, drinking, eating, eating up, engorgement, engulfment, epulation, erosion, exhaustion, expending, expenditure, feasting, feeding, finishing, gastric juice, gastrointestinal tract, gluttony, gobbling, grazing, gulp, gulping, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hunger, imbibing, imbibition, impoverishment, ingurgitation, intestinal juice, licking, liver, manducation, mastication, messing, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pancreas, pancreatic digestion, pancreatic juice, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, predigestion, regalement, relishing, rumination, saliva, salivary digestion, salivary glands, savoring, secondary digestion, slurp, soaking-up, spending, squandering, swallow, swallowing, taking-in, tasting, using up, vegetarianism, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wearing away, wearing down, wolfing

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Reception

N reception, admission, admittance, entree, importation, introduction, intromission, immission, ingestion, imbibation, introception, absorption, ingurgitation, inhalation, suction, sucking, eating, drinking, insertion, interjection, introit, admitting, admitted, admissable, absorbent.

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