digest
di‧gest1 /daɪˈdʒest, də-/ 
verb [transitive]
Most babies can digest a wide range of food easily. ⇨ ingest
2. to understand new information, especially when there is a lot of it or it is difficult to understand
SYN take in:
I struggled to digest the news.
di‧gest2 /ˈdaɪdʒest/ noun [countable]
a short piece of writing that gives the most important facts from a book, report etc
| I |
verb [transitive] Date: 1300-1400
Language: Latin
Origin: digestus, past participle of digerere 'to carry apart, arrange, digest'
1. to change food that you have just eaten into substances that your body can use:Language: Latin
Origin: digestus, past participle of digerere 'to carry apart, arrange, digest'
2. to understand new information, especially when there is a lot of it or it is difficult to understand
SYN take in:
| II |
noun [countable]a short piece of writing that gives the most important facts from a book, report etc