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DIGEST

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

Synonyms:

compilation; digest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("digest" is a kind of...):

collection; compendium (a publication containing a variety of works)

Derivation:

digest (make more concise)

digest (arrange and integrate in the mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A periodical that summarizes the news

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("digest" is a kind of...):

periodical (a publication that appears at fixed intervals)

Derivation:

digest (make more concise)

digest (arrange and integrate in the mind)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

break down; break up; decompose (separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts)

Verb group:

digest (soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

digestion (the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make more concise

Example:

condense the contents of a book into a summary

Synonyms:

concentrate; condense; digest

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

abbreviate; abridge; contract; cut; foreshorten; reduce; shorten (reduce in scope while retaining essential elements)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "digest"):

capsule; capsulise; capsulize; encapsulate (put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume)

telescope (make smaller or shorter)

Sentence frames:

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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

digest (something that is compiled (as into a single book or file))

digest (a periodical that summarizes the news)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

disintegrate (break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity)

Verb group:

digest (soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Systematize, as by classifying and summarizing

Example:

the government digested the entire law into a code

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

systematise; systematize; systemise; systemize (arrange according to a system or reduce to a system)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Become assimilated into the body

Example:

Protein digests in a few hours

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

digest (convert food into absorbable substances)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

digestible (capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal)

digestive (relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Arrange and integrate in the mind

Example:

I cannot digest all this information

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

apprehend; compass; comprehend; dig; get the picture; grasp; grok; savvy (get the meaning of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue digest the movie

Derivation:

digest (something that is compiled (as into a single book or file))

digest (a periodical that summarizes the news)

digestion (learning and coming to understand ideas and information)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant

Example:

She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage

Synonyms:

abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Verb group:

suffer (experience (emotional) pain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "digest"):

accept; live with; swallow (tolerate or accommodate oneself to)

hold still for; stand for (tolerate or bear)

bear up (endure cheerfully)

take lying down (suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively)

take a joke (listen to a joke at one's own expense)

sit out (endure to the end)

pay (bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 8

Meaning:

Convert food into absorbable substances

Example:

I cannot digest milk products

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

"Digest" entails doing...:

consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)

Verb group:

digest (become assimilated into the body)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "digest"):

stomach (bear to eat)

predigest (digest (food) beforehand)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs digest the vegetables

Derivation:

digester (autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested)

digestible (capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal)

digestion (the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body)

digestive (relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A bile duct is a tube that carries bile (fluid made by the liver that helps digest fat) between the liver and gallbladder and the intestine.

(Bile Duct Cancer, NCI Dictionary)

Your gallbladder stores it until you need it to digest fat.

(Bile Duct Cancer, NIH)

The purpose of the colon is to remove water from digested food prior to excretion.

(Colon, NCI Thesaurus)

Compounds in food which are not digested by the digestive processes in the human stomach or small intestine.

(Dietary Fiber, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

It happens when digestive enzymes start digesting the pancreas itself.

(Pancreatitis, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

The exocrine pancreas makes enzymes that help the body digest food.

(Pancreas, NCI Thesaurus)

Peptic ulcers happen when the acids that help you digest food damage the walls of the stomach or duodenum.

(Peptic Ulcer, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

A rare, inherited disorder marked by a buildup in the liver of bile (fluid that helps digest fat).

(PFIC, NCI Dictionary)

The process by which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris; an important defense against infection.

(Phagocytosis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is non-spore forming, catalase and indole negative, does not liquefy gelatin, hydrolyze hippurate, digest meat, or reduce nitrate, but does ferment glucose, glycogen, trehalose, and starch, as well as hydrolyze esculin.

(Olsenella uli, NCI Thesaurus)