digest

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
2. (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
3. (transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
4. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
5. (transitive) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
6. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
10. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).

Noun

1. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
2. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
3. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
4. The result of applying a hash function to a message.

Synonyms

abstract

summary

stomach

absorb

synopsis

condense

compendium

endure

brook

tolerate

abridgement

stand

abridgment

bear

🐻

support

assimilate

understand

stick out

abide

brief

chew

thaw

take

summarize

concentrate

suffer

compilation

put up

ingest

epitome

dissolve

unthaw

caramelise

syllabus

caramelize

precis

melt

fuse

liquefy

resume

take in

code

cluster

clippings

classify

assume

clarify

chunk

digested

defrost

Translations

digerir

digerire

verdauen

digérer

verteren

digerir

digero

smaltire

compendio

sommario

χωνεύω

compendio

verduwen

digerir

digereren

Pronounced as (IPA)

/daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: digesten

Cognate with Middle French: digestion

In summary

From Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“carry apart”), from dī- (for dis- (“apart”)) + gerō (“I carry”), influenced by Middle French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both “to melt, to digest,” whence Modern English melt.