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digestdigest1 /daɪˈdʒɛst, dɪ-/ ●○○ verb ETYMOLOGYdigest1Origin: 1300-1400 Latin digestus, past participle of digerere to carry apart, arrange, digest VERB TABLEdigest |
Present | I, you, we, they | digest | | he, she, it | digests | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | digested | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have digested | | he, she, it | has digested | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had digested | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will digest | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have digested |
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Present | I | am digesting | | he, she, it | is digesting | | you, we, they | are digesting | Past | I, he, she, it | was digesting | | you, we, they | were digesting | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been digesting | | he, she, it | has been digesting | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been digesting | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be digesting | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been digesting |
1[intransitive, transitive] science, biology if food digests or if you digest it, it changes in the stomach into a form your body can use: Some babies can’t digest cow’s milk. → see also ingest2[transitive] to understand new information after thinking about it carefully: It took a while to digest the theory. [Origin: 1300–1400 Latin digestus, past participle of digerere to carry apart, arrange, digest]—digestible adjective |