v. 1 assimilate She has trouble digesting milk 2 bear, stand, endure, survive, assimilate, accept, tolerate, brook, swallow, stomach The attack was too much for even him to digest 3 comprehend, assimilate, understand, take in, consider, grasp, study, ponder, meditate (on or over), reflect on, think over, weigh I need a little time to digest the new regulations 4 abbreviate, cut, condense, abridge, compress, epitomize, summarize, reduce, shorten Her assistant had digested the report into four pages by noon
n. 5 condensation, abridgment or abridgement, abstract, précis, résumé, synopsis, summary, conspectus, abbreviation I never did read the original novel, only a digest