0 past simple and past 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: --
Thus, one can say of a newly packaged, hot-off-theassembly-line dishwasher, it washes dishes, or of a newly hatched bird, it eats partly digested worms.
The bacterial cells and digested host tissues provide a rich medium for nematode growth and reproduction.
In contrast, the blood-meal of insect vectors is digested extracellularly (within the midgut lumen).
Each mouse carcass was skinned, eviscerated and digested.
Once the students have digested the feedback, they have the opportunity to challenge the assessment and present arguments for additional marks.
It should be read and digested both by academics and practitioners.
Partially digested ventral suckers of adult flukes were prepared as described previously, then fixed and processed for phalloidin staining.
Unusually on average only two or three peptides will be digested whilst the others remain intact.