EGAVE

digest

About 5.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
    to digest laws
  2. verb 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.
  3. verb 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.
  4. verb To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
  5. verb To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
  6. verb To undergo digestion.
    I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.
  7. verb To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases.
  8. verb To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

Similar words

compilation digestive digester digestion assimilate absorb swallow melt stomach eat

Often followed by

of the and it them is in for food

Word family

digested digesting digests

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