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1.
When food ~s or when you ~ it, it passes through your body to your stomach. Your stomach removes the substances that your body needs and gets rid of the rest.
Do not undertake strenuous exercise for a few hours after a meal to allow food to ~...
She couldn’t ~ food properly...
Nutrients from the ~ed food can be absorbed into the blood.
VERB: V, V n, V-ed
2.
If you ~ information, you think about it carefully so that you understand it.
They learn well but seem to need time to ~ information...
VERB: V n
3.
If you ~ some unpleasant news, you think about it until you are able to accept it and know how to deal with it.
All this has upset me. I need time to ~ it all.
VERB: V n
4.
A ~ is a collection of pieces of writing. They are published together in a shorter form than they were originally published.
...the Middle East Economic Digest.
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