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6 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
noun a process of taking up or using up or consuming
originFrom 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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0