0 past simple and past participle of imbibe
1 to drink, especially alcohol:
Have you been imbibing again?
The seeds were imbibed and germinated in pure distilled water or in aqueous solutions of the chemicals to be tested.
Most likely, the swelling of the starch granules in the imbibed kernels caused the cracks to close.
Here, the dormancy-breaking chemical was applied to the dry seed (rather than to the imbibed seed as in the study cited above).
They were men who had imbibed the psychology of colonial subordination.
The starch granules were more angular in the dry kernels than in the imbibed kernels, in which the starch granules were rounder and more turgid.
The presence of a gut barrier in ticks indicates that there is a specific interaction between virus (imbibed in the bloodmeal) and midgut cells.
Only 4% of the control seeds imbibed, and only 3% of them germinated.
Seeds made water-permeable by boiling imbibed water, and thus germinated, at a much slower rate than those made water-permeable by mechanical scarification.
