I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
digest food
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Aphids have bacteria in their guts that help them digest food.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
food
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The aphids, in turn, have bacteria in their guts that help them digest food .
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Eating and digesting food releases many hormones into the bloodstream.
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The parent partially digests food in its crop.
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He could describe how insects digest food and how thunderstorms happened.
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We may not be able to digest foods as easily as we once could.
information
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Ramsay had barely digested this sorry information when he learned more.
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I can't digest this information .
time
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You have time to digest the unexpected worm, as they say about early birds!
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They say Time Warner, which has been roiled by management changes, will have a tough time digesting Turner.
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They need time to digest radical change, otherwise their immediate reaction is negative.
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Pasta contains complex carbohydrates so takes time to be digested .
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She needed time to digest the idea of Bridget and Geoffrey having been lovers, even for a short period.
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Society has taken its time to digest the realities.
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The gizzard-stone treatment meant that food took a long time to digest .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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By the end of the day, I had a lot of new information to digest .
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It took a while to digest the theory.
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Some babies can't digest cow's milk.
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The pub went silent as the villagers digested the news.
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You shouldn't go swimming until your food has had a chance to digest .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Athletes such as Boris Becker are fans of the fruit because it is easily digested to provide an instant energy high.
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He could describe how insects digest food and how thunderstorms happened.
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In the most organic, visceral way possible they now felt bonded with utter intimacy to their Chapter, digested by it.
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Pasta contains complex carbohydrates so takes time to be digested.
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The volume of documentation that must be digested is staggering.
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They need time to digest radical change, otherwise their immediate reaction is negative.
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Whole grains are higher in fiber than processed grains, making them harder to digest .
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Yogurt is a good source of calcium for anyone, but especially good for people who have trouble digesting milk.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If you'd rather receive your mail in large batches than have it trickle through, request a digest where available.
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Many of these works contain important statistical material, but there exist also many purely statistical digests and collections.
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Most providers provide archive and digest service for the customer mailing list.
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The figures came in Social Trends, the official annual digest of facts and figures about life in Britain.