imbibes

Verb

imbibe (third-person singular simple present imbibes, present participle imbibing, simple past and past participle imbibed)

1. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
   • Perhaps in the case of the vodka-drinking peasant it is this weekly parboil which saves his life and postpones the dreadful day when the constant imbibing of unlimited quantities of the deadly liquor must be paid for.1899, John A. Logan, Jr., In Joyful Russia, 2nd edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 185
2. (figuratively) To take in; absorb.
   • to imbibe knowledge
3. (obsolete, transitive) To steep; to cause to absorb liquid.