0 present participle of digest
1 to change food in your stomach into substances that your body can use:
2 to read or hear new information and take the necessary time to understand it:
The adult owls feed their young with food which they've already partly digested.
Don't rush off - let's just sit here a while and digest our food.
How can you expect to digest your food properly when you eat your meals so fast?
The snake lay absolutely motionless for hours as it digested its meal.
Meat-eaters must produce extensive bile acids in their intestines to properly digest the meat that they eat.
Unless they respond actively, they will be carried passively with the digesting gut contents along the intestine and eventually voided in the faeces.
Camels are capable of digesting hard and thorny vegetables, but cannot digest grains of barley.
Yet the authors know they are asking a lot of readers, not only in digesting a mass of historical information, but also in reorienting well-settled moral perspectives.
