Definitions for Digest

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Digest di·gest

Spelling: [verb dih-jest, dahy-; noun dahy-jest]

IPA: /verb dɪˈdʒɛst, daɪ-; noun ˈdaɪ dʒɛst/

Digest is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in Digest (degist).

Definitions for Digest

noun

1. a collection or compendium, usually of literary, historical, legal, or scientific matter, especially when classified or condensed.
2. Law. a systematic abstract of some body of law. the Digest, a collection in fifty books of excerpts, especially from the writings of the Classical Roman jurists, compiled by order of Justinian in the 6th century a.d.; the Pandects.
3. Biochemistry. the product of the action of an enzyme on food or other organic material.

verb (used with object)

1. to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
2. to promote the digestion of (food).
3. to obtain information, ideas, or principles from; assimilate mentally:
4. to arrange methodically in the mind; think over:
5. to bear with patience; endure.
6. to arrange in convenient or methodical order; reduce to a system; classify.
7. to condense, abridge, or summarize.
8. Chemistry. to soften or disintegrate (a substance) by means of moisture, heat, chemical action, or the like.

verb (used without object)

1. to digest food.
2. to undergo digestion, as food.

Origin of Digest

1350-1400; (v.) Middle English digesten Latin dīgestus separated, dissolved (past participle of dīgerere), equivalent to dī- di-² + ges- carry, bear (base of

Examples for Digest

Warfighting, its authors freely admitted, was essentially On War in digest form.

Well, great masters, if you swallow me, you may not digest me.

It cannot digest itself; it cannot of its own accord turn into bone and muscle and blood.

It is this kind of abortion narrative that is easiest for people to digest, and there are many cases like this.

As to their clients, that is another thing; God knows they have much to digest!

Before you invoke images of a nation enjoying more indolence than industry, there is an uncomfortable statistic to digest.

A pint a day was his daily ration, the only nourishment he could digest.

O, worshippers of heavy incapacity, take and digest it if you can.

Foods, wines are categorized as “digest” or “pas digest,” as in easy or difficult to digest.

Food intolerance occurs when your body is unable to digest a certain component of a food, such as the protein called gluten.