| 单词 | digest |
| 释义 | digest (once / 295 pages) 1v 2vn 3v When your stomach breaks down food, it digests it. To digest is to process food so it can be absorbed into the body or information so the mind can absorb it. If you tell your mother some bad news, like say, that you failed your math test after studying so hard, she might say, "Let me take a moment to digest that information." She's not going to swallow the paper and let her stomach do the work. Instead, she's going to take a moment to sit with the news and understand it. As a noun, a digest is a magazine that breaks down information into understandable summaries. WORD FAMILYdigest: digested, digester, digestible, digesting, digestion, digestive, digests, predigest+/digested: undigested/digester: digesters/digestibility: digestibilities/digestible: digestibility, digestibleness, digestibly, indigestible, nondigestible/digestion: digestions, indigestion, self-digestion/digestive: digestively, digestives/indigestible: indigestibility, indigestibleness, indigestibly/indigestion: indigestions/predigest: predigested, predigesting USAGE EXAMPLESGolf Digest will unveil the latest edition of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses later this week. Golf Digest(Jan 02, 2017) There was a lot to digest Sunday, both good and bad, for Anaheim. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) He traces an unexpected but plausible route from the Digesting Duck to the first programmable computer. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v convert food into absorbable substances I cannot digest milk products Hypo|Hyper stomach bear to eat predigestdigest (food) beforehand process, treat subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition 2v become assimilated into the body Protein digests in a few hours Hyper change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 3v soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture Hyper break down, break up, decompose separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts 4v soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture 2Hyper disintegrate break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity 1v arrange and integrate in the mind I cannot digest all this information Hyper apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy understand or perceive the meaning of something 2v systematize, as by classifying and summarizing the government digested the entire law into a code Hyper systematise, systematize, systemise, systemize arrange according to a system or reduce to a system 3v make more concise Syn|Hypo|Hyper concentrate, condense capsule, capsulise, capsulize, encapsulate put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume telescopemake smaller or shorter abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten reduce in scope while retaining essential elements 4n something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) Syn|Hyper compilation collection, compendium a publication containing a variety of works 5n a periodical that summarizes the news 3Hyper periodical a publication that appears at fixed intervals v put up with something or somebody unpleasant Syn|Hypo|Hyper abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate suffer experience (emotional) pain accept, live with, swallow tolerate or accommodate oneself to hold still for, stand fortolerate or bear bear upendure cheerfully take lying downsuffer without protest; suffer or endure passively take a jokelisten to a joke at one's own expense sit outendure to the end paybear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action get one's lumps, take one's lumpssuffer the results or consequences of one's behavior or actions allow, countenance, let, permit consent to, give permission |
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