How to pronounce “imbibe”(verb) in English

a smoothie? I mean, I don't use it. I, you know, I enjoy it. I drink it. I enjoy it.I imbibe, whatever so, you know, whatever word you've got in there, we figured that the people of Great Britain and further afield were smart enough to understand by "enjoy"that I meant, you know, best to drink it before that day. But then, going to factory and trying to explain that to the guy, you know, you'd say, "Can we put 'enjoy by' on top?" And didn't