imbibing vs intake

imbibing and intake both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
imbibing	Yes	No	No	No
intake	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, intake is a hypernym of imbibing; that is, intake is a word with a broader meaning than imbibing:

imbibing: the act of consuming liquids
intake: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

Other hypernyms of imbibing include consumption, ingestion, uptake.

imbibing (noun)	intake (noun)
the act of consuming liquids	the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
	the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
	an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container