Word Meaning

digest definition and meaning

v. t. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
v. t. 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.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
v. t. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
v. t. To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
v. t. To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
v. t. To ripen; to mature.
v. t. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
v. i. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
v. i. To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
v. t. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
v. t. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.

Crossword clues for digest

- Absorb
- Absorb (food)
- Absorbing (food)
- Assimilat mentally
- Assimilate
- Assimilate food
- Assimilate mentally
- Comprehend fully an abridged version
- Dissolve in the stomach
- Ingest
- Summarise
- Take in
- Take in (information)
- Take in evenly adding tea-sets
- Take in food
- Take into body