DIGEST


Meaning of DIGEST in English

I. di ‧ gest 1 /daɪˈdʒest, də-/ BrE AmE verb [transitive]

[ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Latin ; Origin: digestus , past participle of digerere 'to carry apart, arrange, digest' ]

1 . to change food that you have just eaten into substances that your body can use:

Most babies can digest a wide range of food easily.

⇨ ↑ ingest

2 . to understand new information, especially when there is a lot of it or it is difficult to understand SYN take in :

I struggled to digest the news.

II. di ‧ gest 2 /ˈdaɪdʒest/ BrE AmE noun [countable]

a short piece of writing that gives the most important facts from a book, report etc

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