hit the bottle vs ingest

hit the bottle and ingest both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hit the bottle	No	No	Yes	No
ingest	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, ingest is a hypernym of hit the bottle; that is, ingest is a word with a broader meaning than hit the bottle:

Other hypernyms of hit the bottle include consume, have, take, take in.

hit the bottle (verb)	ingest (verb)
consume alcohol	take up mentally
	serve oneself to, or consume regularly