digestverb
uk/daɪˈdʒest/us/daɪˈdʒest/digest verb (EAT)
C1 [ I or T ] to change food in your stomach into substances that your body can use:
I find that I don't digest meat easily.
Sit still and allow your meal to digest.
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- The adult owls feed their young with food which they've already partly digested.
- Don't rush off - let's just sit here a while and digest our food.
- How can you expect to digest your food properly when you eat your meals so fast?
- The snake lay absolutely motionless for hours as it digested its meal.
- Meat-eaters must produce extensive bile acids in their intestines to properly digest the meat that they eat.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Eating
- al desko
- ate
- binge
- binge eating
- bite
- consume
- feast on sth
- feeder
- feeding
- finish
- finish (sth) up
- gorge
- put sth away
- scarf
- scoff
- shovel sth into your mouth idiom
- snack
- stoke
- swallow
- tuck
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digest verb (UNDERSTAND)
C1 [ T ] to read or hear new information and take the necessary time to understand it:
This chapter is so difficult to digest, I'll have to read it again later.
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Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- feel
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- picture
- plumb
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realization
- realize
- take sth in
- twig
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digestnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdaɪ.dʒest/us/ˈdaɪ.dʒest/a short written report providing the most important parts of a larger piece of writing, or one containing recent news:
A digest of the research findings is now available.
The company publishes a monthly digest of its activities.
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Books: kinds of books
- abridge
- annual
- anthology
- audiobook
- autobiography
- backlist
- bestiary
- e-reader
- exercise book
- fiction
- flipback
- folio
- glossy
- manuscript
- novella
- page-turner
- paperback
- photo album
- picture book
- travelogue
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