digest

digest is a 6-letter English word with 23 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
2. transitive verb. To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
3. transitive verb. To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
4. transitive verb. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
5. transitive verb. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
6. transitive verb. To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
7. transitive verb. To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
8. transitive verb. To ripen; to mature.
9. transitive verb. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
10. intransitive verb. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
11. intransitive verb. To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
12. transitive verb. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
13. transitive verb. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.
14. noun. something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

    Synonyms: compilation

15. noun. a periodical that summarizes the news
16. verb. soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
17. verb. make more concise

    "condense the contents of a book into a summary"

    Synonyms: concentrate, condense

18. verb. soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
19. verb. systematize, as by classifying and summarizing

    "the government digested the entire law into a code"

20. verb. become assimilated into the body

    "Protein digests in a few hours"

21. verb. arrange and integrate in the mind

    "I cannot digest all this information"

22. verb. put up with something or somebody unpleasant

    "I cannot bear his constant criticism"

    "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"

    Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, endure, stand, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate

23. verb. convert food into absorbable substances

    "I cannot digest milk products"

Synonyms

compilation, concentrate, condense, abide, bear, brook, endure, stand, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate

Common word forms

digests, digested, digester, digesting, digestment

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