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digest

noun · verb · 25 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • dīʹjĕst
  • dīʹjəst
  • /ˈdaɪd͡ʒɛst/
  • /ˈdaɪd͡ʒəst/
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  • rhymes with -ɛst
  • dī-jĕstʹ
  • də-jĕstʹ
  • /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/
  • /dəˈd͡ʒɛst/
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  • CMU ARPABET: D AY0 JH EH1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: D AY1 JH EH0 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Comyn's Digest
  • the United States Digest

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Reader's Digest is published monthly.
  • The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The result of applying a hash function to a message.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, cryptography, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • to digest laws

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

To undergo digestion.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

verb

Meaning 12

To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, obsolete

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

verb

Meaning 13

To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

verb

Meaning 14

To ripen; to mature.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

verb

Meaning 15

To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

noun

Meaning 16

something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: compilation

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: collection, compendium

17

noun

Meaning 17

a periodical that summarizes the news

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: periodical

18

verb

Meaning 18

soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: decompose, break up, break down

19

verb

Meaning 19

make more concise

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • condense the contents of a book into a summary

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: condense, concentrate

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce

Narrower terms: encapsulate, capsule, capsulize, capsulise, telescope

20

verb

Meaning 20

soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: disintegrate

21

verb

Meaning 21

systematize, as by classifying and summarizing

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the government digested the entire law into a code

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: systematize, systematise, systemize, systemise

22

verb

Meaning 22

become assimilated into the body

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Protein digests in a few hours

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: change

23

verb

Meaning 23

arrange and integrate in the mind

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • I cannot digest all this information

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend

24

verb

Meaning 24

put up with something or somebody unpleasant

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • 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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: permit, allow, let, countenance

Narrower terms: accept, live with, swallow, stand for, hold still for, bear up, take lying down, take a joke, sit out, pay

25

verb

Meaning 25

convert food into absorbable substances

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • I cannot digest milk products

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: process, treat

Narrower terms: stomach, predigest

History

Etymology

From Latin dīgesta, neuter plural of dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“separate”).

From Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“carry apart”), from dī- (for dis- (“apart”)) + gerō (“to carry”), influenced by Middle French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both “to melt, to digest,” whence Modern English melt.

Across languages

Translations

177 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • German: Verdaute — that which is digested
  • Turkish: hazmedilmiş olan — that which is digested
  • Belarusian: збо́рнік (zbórnik) — compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged
  • Bulgarian: сборник (sbornik) — compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged
  • Dutch: compendium — compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged
  • Dutch: overzicht — compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged
  • Finnish: tiivistelmä — compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged
  • Finnish: yhteenveto — compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged
  • French: digeste — compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged
  • Greek: επιτομή (epitomí) — compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged
  • Portuguese: compêndio — compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged
  • Russian: сбо́рник (sbórnik) — compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged
  • Spanish: resumen — compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged
  • Ukrainian: збі́рник (zbírnyk) — compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged
  • Belarusian: да́йджэст (dájdžest) — magazine of abridged articles
  • Bulgarian: резюме (rezjume) — magazine of abridged articles
  • Chinese Mandarin: 文摘 (wénzhāi) — magazine of abridged articles
  • Dutch: compendium — magazine of abridged articles
  • Dutch: overzicht — magazine of abridged articles
  • French: revue de presse — magazine of abridged articles
  • French: revue — magazine of abridged articles
  • Georgian: რეზიუმე (reziume) — magazine of abridged articles
  • Georgian: კომპენდიუმი (ḳomṗendiumi) — magazine of abridged articles
  • Georgian: დაიჯესტი (daiǯesṭi) — magazine of abridged articles
  • German: Digest — magazine of abridged articles
  • Hungarian: összeállítás — magazine of abridged articles
  • Hungarian: digest — magazine of abridged articles
  • Japanese: ダイジェスト (daijesuto) — magazine of abridged articles
  • Korean: 다이제스트 (daijeseuteu) — magazine of abridged articles
  • Russian: да́йджест (dájdžest) — magazine of abridged articles
  • Russian: обзо́р (obzór) — magazine of abridged articles
  • Russian: обзо́р пре́ссы (obzór préssy) — magazine of abridged articles
  • Russian: обзо́р литерату́ры (obzór literatúry) — magazine of abridged articles
  • Ukrainian: да́йджест (dájdžest) — magazine of abridged articles
  • Portuguese: resumo — cryptography: the result of applying a hash function to a message
  • Dutch: ordenen — to distribute or arrange methodically
  • Finnish: järjestellä — to distribute or arrange methodically
  • Finnish: luokitella — to distribute or arrange methodically
  • Finnish: annostella — to distribute or arrange methodically
  • Galician: dixerir — to distribute or arrange methodically
  • German: ordnen — to distribute or arrange methodically
  • Latin: digero — to distribute or arrange methodically
  • Sicilian: arrizzittari — to distribute or arrange methodically
  • Sicilian: cunzari — to distribute or arrange methodically
  • Spanish: digerir — to distribute or arrange methodically
  • Turkish: düzenlemek — to distribute or arrange methodically
  • Turkish: tertip etmek — to distribute or arrange methodically
  • Arabic: هَضَمَ (haḍama) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Armenian: մարսել (marsel) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Assamese: হজম কৰা (hozom kora) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Assamese: জীণ নিয়া (zin nia) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Assamese: জাহ নিয়া (zah nia) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Azerbaijani: mənimsəmək — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Azerbaijani: həzm etmək — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Azerbaijani: əritmək — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Belarusian: стравава́ць (stravavácʹ) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Belarusian: ператраўля́ць (pjeratrawljácʹ) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Belarusian: траві́ць (travícʹ) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Belarusian: перава́рваць (pjeravárvacʹ) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Bulgarian: сми́лам (smílam) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Bulgarian: сме́ля (smélja) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Bulgarian: усвоя́вам (usvojávam) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Bulgarian: усвоя́ (usvojá) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Catalan: digerir — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Chinese Cantonese: 消化 (siu1 faa3) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 消化 (xiāohuà) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Czech: trávit — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Danish: fordøje — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Dutch: verteren — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Esperanto: digesti — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Finnish: sulattaa — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • French: digérer — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Galician: dixerir — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Galician: cocer — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • German: verdauen — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Hebrew: עיכל — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Hebrew: עִכֵּל (ikél) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Hindi: पचाना (pacānā) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Hungarian: emészt — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Hungarian: megemészt — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Icelandic: melta — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Ido: digestar — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Irish: díleáigh — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Italian: digerire — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Japanese: 消化する (shōka suru) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Korean: 소화하다 (sohwahada) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Lao: ຍ່ອຍ (nyǭi) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Latin: digero — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Macedonian: сварува (svaruva) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Macedonian: свари (svari) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Maltese: ġerragħ — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Māori: nakunaku — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Māori: kūnatu — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Māori: whakangawhere — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Old English: mieltan — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Polish: trawić — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Portuguese: digerir — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Romanian: a digera — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Russian: перева́ривать (perevárivatʹ) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Russian: перевари́ть (perevarítʹ) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Russian: усва́ивать (usváivatʹ) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Russian: усво́ить (usvóitʹ) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Scottish Gaelic: cnàmh — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Serbo-Croatian: свари́вати — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Serbo-Croatian: сва́рити — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Serbo-Croatian: про̀бављати — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Serbo-Croatian: про̀бавити — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Serbo-Croatian: svarívati — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Serbo-Croatian: sváriti — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Serbo-Croatian: pròbavljati — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Serbo-Croatian: pròbaviti — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Sicilian: diggiriri — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Slovak: tráviť — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Slovene: prebavljati — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Slovene: prebaviti — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Lower Sorbian: póžyś — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Lower Sorbian: póžywaś — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Upper Sorbian: požić — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Upper Sorbian: požiwać — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Spanish: digerir — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Swedish: smälta — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Tamil: ஜீரணி (jīraṇi) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Thai: ย่อย (yɔ̂i) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Turkish: sindirmek — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Ukrainian: перетра́влювати (peretrávljuvaty) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Ukrainian: трави́ти (travýty) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Volapük: dicetön — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Welsh: treulio — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Yiddish: פֿאַרדײַען (fardayen) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Yiddish: פֿאַרדייען (fardeyen) — to separate food in the alimentary canal
  • Bulgarian: разби́рам (razbíram) — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Bulgarian: разбера́ (razberá) — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Bulgarian: усвоя́вам (usvojávam) — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Bulgarian: усвоя́ (usvojá) — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Dutch: overdenken — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Finnish: sulattaa — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • German: überdenken — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • German: verdauen — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Hungarian: feldolgoz — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Hungarian: megemészt — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Japanese: 会得する (etoku suru) — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Latin: digero — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Russian: перева́ривать (perevárivatʹ) — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Russian: перевари́ть (perevarítʹ) — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Russian: усва́ивать (usváivatʹ) — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Russian: усво́ить (usvóitʹ) — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Sicilian: raciunari — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Sicilian: raggiunari (Italianization) — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Spanish: digerir — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Turkish: tekrak düşünmek — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Turkish: hazmetmek — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • Ukrainian: засво́ювати (zasvójuvaty) — to think over and arrange methodically in the mind
  • German: aufschließen — in chemistry: to soften by heat and moisture
  • Latin: digero — in chemistry: to soften by heat and moisture
  • Bulgarian: сми́лам се (smílam se) — to undergo digestion
  • Bulgarian: сме́ля се (smélja se) — to undergo digestion
  • Bulgarian: усвоя́вам се (usvojávam se) — to undergo digestion
  • Bulgarian: усвоя́ се (usvojá se) — to undergo digestion
  • Czech: trávit — to undergo digestion
  • Dutch: verteren — to undergo digestion
  • Finnish: sulaa — to undergo digestion
  • German: verdaulich sein — to undergo digestion
  • Hebrew: הִתְעַכֵּל (hit'akél) — to undergo digestion
  • Hindi: पचना (pacnā) — to undergo digestion
  • Hungarian: megemésztődik — to undergo digestion
  • Latin: digero — to undergo digestion
  • Old English: meltan — to undergo digestion
  • Romanian: digera — to undergo digestion
  • Romanian: mistui — to undergo digestion
  • Russian: перева́риваться (perevárivatʹsja) — to undergo digestion
  • Russian: перевари́ться (perevarítʹsja) — to undergo digestion
  • Russian: усва́иваться (usváivatʹsja) — to undergo digestion
  • Russian: усво́иться (usvóitʹsja) — to undergo digestion
  • Scottish Gaelic: cnàmh — to undergo digestion
  • Sicilian: diggiriri — to undergo digestion
  • Spanish: digerirse — to undergo digestion
  • Turkish: hazmedilir olmak — to undergo digestion
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