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