Digest - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |daɪˈdʒest|  American pronunciation of the word digest
Brit.  |daɪˈdʒest|  British pronunciation of the word digest

noun

- a periodical that summarizes the news
- something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) (syn: compilation)

verb

- convert food into absorbable substances
I cannot digest milk products
- arrange and integrate in the mind
I cannot digest all this information
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant (syn: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate)
- become assimilated into the body
Protein digests in a few hours
- systematize, as by classifying and summarizing
the government digested the entire law into a code
- soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
- make more concise (syn: concentrate, condense)
- soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

Extra examples

...a digest of yesterday's departmental meeting...

He has trouble digesting certain foods.

It will take me a while to digest this news.

Every government is bound to digest the whole law into a code.

The cattle cannot digest tobacco.

He likes to digest what he reads.

The regent was busy in digesting the plan of compromise.

I don't digest this man.

This opinion, I say, I can hardly digest.

I cannot digest the loss of his works.

Digest the bark in alcohol, evaporate the alcoholic solution to dryness.

Let them stand to digest twelve or fourteen days.

Most babies can digest a wide range of food easily.

I struggled to digest the news.

I cannot digest milk products

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: digest
he/she/it: digests
present participle: digesting
past tense: digested
past participle: digested
noun
singular: digest
plural: digests
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