Meaning

11 senses
  1. (transitive)To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

    to digest laws

    ordnen

  2. (transitive)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.

    verdauen

    перева́риватьperevárivatʹ, перевари́тьperevarítʹ, усва́иватьusváivatʹ

    перетра́влюватиperetrávljuvaty, трави́тиtravýty

    convert food into absorbable substances

  3. (transitive)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.

    überdenken, verdauen

    перева́риватьperevárivatʹ, перевари́тьperevarítʹ, усва́иватьusváivatʹ

    засво́юватиzasvójuvaty

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

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

    aufschließen

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

  6. (intransitive)To undergo digestion.

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

    verdaulich sein

    перева́риватьсяperevárivatʹsja, перевари́тьсяperevarítʹsja, усва́иватьсяusváivatʹsja

  7. (transitive)To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases.

  8. (intransitive, obsolete)To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

  9. (obsolete, transitive)To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.

  10. (obsolete, transitive)To ripen; to mature.

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

Examples

51 sentences
  1. Cheese doesn't digest easily.

    Сир не перетравлюється легко.

    ruСыр нелегко переварить.

    deKäse ist nicht einfach zu verdauen.

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  2. Rice gruel is easy to digest.

    ruРисовая каша легко переваривается.

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  3. Chew your food well so it can be digested properly.

    ruХорошо пережёвывай пищу, чтобы она нормально усваивалась.

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  4. I know it's a lot to digest.

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  5. Wine helps digest food.

    ruВино способствует пищеварению.

    deWein fördert die Verdauung.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
to separate food in the alimentary canal:
to think over and arrange methodically in the mind:
Русский
By meaning 2
to separate food in the alimentary canal:
to undergo digestion:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
to distribute or arrange methodically:
to separate food in the alimentary canal:
to think over and arrange methodically in the mind:
in chemistry: to soften by heat and moisture:
to undergo digestion:

Origin

From Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“carry apart

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.

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Forms

digests, digesting, digested, digested
Base formdigest · to digest
3rd person singulardigests
Present participledigesting
Past simpledigested
Past participledigested

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydigest
he, she, itdigests

Past simpleLesson

all personsdigested

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave digested
he, she, ithas digested

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill digest

Synonyms

16 synonyms
distribute or arrange methodically:arrangeB1sortB2sort out
Close in meaning

Word family

26 related words

See also

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