digest

Definitions

• (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
• (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.
• (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.
• To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
• (transitive) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
• (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
• (medicine) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
• (medicine) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
• (obsolete) To ripen; to mature.
• (obsolete) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)