take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words"
If you imbibe ideas or arguments, you listen to them, accept them, and believe that they are right or true. As a clergyman's son he'd imbibed a set of mystical beliefs from the cradle. = absorb
To imbibe alcohol means to drink it. They were used to imbibing enormous quantities of alcohol No one believes that current nondrinkers should be encouraged to start imbibing
To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors