digest
Nouns
- (n) a periodical that summarizes the news
- (n) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) compilation,
Verbs
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(v) convert food into absorbable substances
- I cannot digest milk products
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(v) arrange and integrate in the mind
- I cannot digest all this information
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(v) put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- I cannot bear his constant criticism
- The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
- he learned to tolerate the heat
- She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
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(v) become assimilated into the body
- Protein digests in a few hours
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(v) systematize, as by classifying and summarizing
- the government digested the entire law into a code
- (v) soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
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(v) make more concise
- condense the contents of a book into a summary
- (v) soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture