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Virile vs Imbibe - What's the difference?

virile | imbibe |

As adjectives the difference between virile and imbibe

is that virile is being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor while imbibe is soaked, saturated.

As a verb imbibe is

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virile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
  • (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.

    • Antonyms

    * nonvirile

    Derived terms

    * virility ----

    imbibe

    English

    Verb

    (imbib)
  • To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
  • (figuratively) To take in; as, to imbibe knowledge.

    • Derived terms

    * imbiber * imbibement

    Hyponyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * beverage