Definitions
the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Word origin
From Middle English uptaken (“to take up, lift”), partial calque of earlier Middle English upnimen (“to take up, lift”), equivalent to up- + take. Compare Swedish upptaga, uppta (“to take up”).
Used in a sentence
“The design provides for continuous smoke troughs of reinforced concrete, vented by circular uptakes, and the turntable area will be covered, using precast reinforced concrete bars down both sides of each track.”
“He hearkned to his reason, and the childe Vptaking, to the Palmer gaue to beare [...].”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Absorption rate”6 letters
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