Digest

Quick meaning: Digest is a verb meaning (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

Meaning

(transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

More Meanings

1. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
2. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
3. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
4. (biochemistry, transitive, of DNA molecules) To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases.
5. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
6. (transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
7. (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

Example Sentences

to digest laws

Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.

joining them together and digesting them into order

I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.

Word Forms

• digests
• digesting
• digested

Synonyms for digest

Depending on context, synonyms include arrange, sort, compilation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include compilation, digestive, digester, digestion, assimilate, absorb.

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