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How to pronounce digest
Say it like this: /daɪˈdʒɛst/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does digest mean?
verbTo distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
“joining them together and digesting them into order”
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 conver
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.
“Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.”
nounThat which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
“the United States Digest”
Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
“Reader's Digest is published monthly.”
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