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Meaning of 'digest' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Digest [ v. i.]
- To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
- To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
2 . Digest [ v. t.]
- To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
- Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
- To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
- To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
- To ripen; to mature.
- To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
- That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
- A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.

Meaning of 'digest' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . digest [ v]
Meaning (1):
- make more concise
Example in sentence:
  • condense the contents of a book into a summary
Meaning (2):
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
Example in sentence:
  • he learned to tolerate the heat;
  • I cannot bear his constant criticism;
  • She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage;
  • The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
Meaning (3):
- arrange and integrate in the mind
Example in sentence:
  • I cannot digest all this information
Meaning (4):
- convert food into absorbable substances
Example in sentence:
  • I cannot digest milk products
Meaning (5):
- become assimilated into the body
Example in sentence:
  • Protein digests in a few hours
Meaning (6):
- systematize, as by classifying and summarizing
Example in sentence:
  • the government digested the entire law into a code

Nearby Words:

dig digamist digamma digammate digammated digamous digamy digastric digenea digenesis

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