digest
verb/daɪˈdʒest/, /dɪˈdʒest/
/daɪˈdʒest/, /dɪˈdʒest/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they digest | /daɪˈdʒest/, /dɪˈdʒest/ /daɪˈdʒest/, /dɪˈdʒest/ |
| he / she / it digests | /daɪˈdʒests/, /dɪˈdʒests/ /daɪˈdʒests/, /dɪˈdʒests/ |
| past simple digested | /daɪˈdʒestɪd/, /dɪˈdʒestɪd/ /daɪˈdʒestɪd/, /dɪˈdʒestɪd/ |
| past participle digested | /daɪˈdʒestɪd/, /dɪˈdʒestɪd/ /daɪˈdʒestɪd/, /dɪˈdʒestɪd/ |
| -ing form digesting | /daɪˈdʒestɪŋ/, /dɪˈdʒestɪŋ/ /daɪˈdʒestɪŋ/, /dɪˈdʒestɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] digest (something) when you digest food, or it digests, it is changed into substances that your body can use
- Humans cannot digest plants such as grass.
- You should allow a little time after a meal for the food to digest.
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatingc1, Biologyc1- He has to avoid fat because his body can't digest it.
- Some foods are digested more easily than others.
- The parent bird partially digests food in its crop.
- partially digested food
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- easily
- fully
- partially
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- [transitive] (chemistry) to treat a substance with heat, enzymes or a solvent (1) in order to break it down or obtain other substances that can be used
- digest something The plant uses anaerobic bacteria to digest organic material and release methane gas.
- digest something with something These DNA fragments were digested with the appropriate enzymes.
- [transitive] digest something to think about something so that you fully understand it
- He paused, waiting for her to digest the information.
- The news was hard to digest.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- easily
- fully
- partially
- …
- can
- be easy to
- be difficult to
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin digest- ‘distributed, dissolved, digested’, from the verb digerere, from di- ‘apart’ + gerere ‘carry’; the noun from Latin digesta ‘matters methodically arranged’, from digestus ‘divided’, from digerere.
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