to convert (food) into a form the body can use
to soften or decompose or extract soluble ingredients from (a substance) by heat and moisture or chemicals
to assimilate (something) mentally
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested — Bacon
to distribute or arrange (something) systematically
to compress (material or information) into a short summary
to become digested
digester noun
digestibility /-ʹbiliti/ noun
digestible adj
[Middle English digesten from Latin digestus: see digest2]