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Digest   /daɪdʒˈɛst/  /dˈaɪdʒɛst/   Listen
Digest

noun
1.
A periodical that summarizes the news.
2.
Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file).  Synonym: compilation.
verb
(past & past part. digested; pres. part. digesting)
1.
Convert food into absorbable substances.
2.
Arrange and integrate in the mind.
3.
Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.  Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate.  "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks" , "He learned to tolerate the heat" , "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
4.
Become assimilated into the body.
5.
Systematize, as by classifying and summarizing.
6.
Soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture.
7.
Make more concise.  Synonyms: concentrate, condense.
8.
Soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture.



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"Digest" Quotes from Famous Books



... brown study for a long time after he finished reading the letter. It was filled with so many new and wonderful things that his brain was in a whirl as he attempted to digest them all. ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... story-hour came round, he produced a set of sentences he kept slyly up his sleeve for the occasion. "Ask your Uncle Felix; he's better at stories and things than I am. It's his business." This was the model. A variation ran: "Oh, don't bother me just now, children. I've got a lot of figures to digest." But the shortest version was simply, "Run and plague your uncle. I'm ...
— The Extra Day • Algernon Blackwood
... in fact, the same as that of the physiological division of labour in the organs of the same individual body—a subject so well elucidated by Milne {116} Edwards. No physiologist doubts that a stomach adapted to digest vegetable matter alone, or flesh alone, draws most nutriment from these substances. So in the general economy of any land, the more widely and perfectly the animals and plants are diversified for different habits of life, so ...
— On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection • Charles Darwin
... apart, there is work for a twelve-month to any man to read such a book, and for half a lifetime to digest it, and I am glad to see it brought to ...
— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball
... to tyrannize over our forefathers, it would have 175:18 been routed by their independence and in- dustry. Then people had less time for self- ishness, coddling, and sickly after-dinner talk. The ex- 175:21 act amount of food the stomach could digest was not discussed according to Cutter nor referred to sanitary laws. A man's belief in those days was not so severe 175:24 upon the gastric juices. Beaumont's "Medical Experi- ments" ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy


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