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单词 digest
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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.

More examples

  • 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.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

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.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

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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