Imbibe meaning

Verb: imbibe

Pronunciation: (im’bIb)

Imbibe meaning:

• Take in liquids.
• To drink alcohol or to take in or to absorb or assimilate moisture, gas, light or heat.
• Receive into the mind and retain.

Synonyms: drink, quaff, assimilate, absorb

Quotations: A quote from Vedas: We should imbibe the good qualities of great people and then bring them into practice. By doing so we can achieve success in all our pursuits.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba: It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one’s thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba: If a person desires to understand clearly the sacred books and scriptural texts of India, toimbibe their message, he must learn the Sanskrit language; he cannot avoid that responsibility and that duty.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba: If the parent is a drunkard, a gambler and a cheat, no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the young innocence. I will not allow them to be blamed. The fault lies wholly on the shoulders of the elders, the parents, and the leaders who shape the norms which they imbibe.

Sample sentences:

• One can imbibe those lessons only to the extent of one’s patience and intelligent skill.
• We should imbibe inspiring thoughts and should follow the righteous path. If this is done then progress is sure and certain.
• In real worship,we just not do ritualistic worship but we try to imbibe the qualities of the one we are worshiping.
• Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by contemplating on them.
• Man becomes fit and functionally valid only when, along with scholarship and expert skills, he has imbibed these values.