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Synonyms for ingest

to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach

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to take (food) into the body as nourishment

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The National Farmers' Union issued a warning about the risks, saying it had received reports of harm or even death to livestock, from ingesting metal wires.
"By ingesting only the peptides and not the whole protein, the body suppresses the urge to react," said Mine.
Interestingly, the Balloon Council labels as "misinformation" claims that wildlife can be injured by ingesting balloons, yet duly warns on its website that young children "may choke or suffocate on uninflated or broken balloons."
They found that, counting the fluoride in her water, the woman was ingesting 37-74 milligrams of fluoride per day.
Harvard scientists have found that ingesting tiny doses of caffeine (chemical found in coffee) throughout the day keeps you more alert than having one huge, a.m.
Begin by making your staff aware of how serious a food-allergy induced allergic reaction can be--many people do not realize that for some, ingesting even small amounts of the food to which they are allergic can cause a reaction.
FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Anticholinergic toxicity from ingesting seeds of the Datura stramonium (jimson weed) plant.
According to the results, Swedes ingest less than half of the dioxin, PCB and DDT that they did at the start of the 1990s, but one in ten could still be ingesting more dioxin and PCB than the acceptable limits allow.
The court noted that detainee repeatedly denied ingesting drugs, refused medical treatment, and offered an alternative explanation for his symptoms.
Here, the artist-act manages to keep it together, and what little drama the film has arises from its moody score, the soft (apparently serendipitous) cascade of blossoms that descend just as Graham is ingesting his dose, and a subtly victorious endpoint: Graham gliding backward across a bridge on his bicycle.
Doubs Nature Environnement has therefore called on the European Commission to pursue France and if necessary refer it before the European Union Court of Justice.A test study conducted by the association over nine months on an area of 170 hectares (55,000 hectares are treated with bromadiolone in the Doubs region), showed that 29 buzzards and 5 kites died after ingesting bromadiolone.
Vitamins are not pep pills (they have no caloric value of their own), food substitutes (they cannot be assimilated without ingesting food), or structural components; nor do they contribute substantially to body mass.
Therefore, travelers to disease-endemic areas must be warned of the possibility of acquiring gnathostomosis and be instructed to avoid ingesting any form of raw fish.