digest

If your body does this, it breaks food into smaller parts that it can use.

• Babies cannot digest every kind of food.
• My body digested the meal slowly.
• Do you find beans hard to digest?

Common phrases: digest food, digest milk, digest a meal

To read or hear information and think about it until you understand it.

• I need time to digest the news.
• She read the report twice to digest its findings.
• Have you digested all that information yet?

Similar words: absorb, take in

Common phrases: digest information, digest the news, digest a report

If food does this, it breaks down inside your body after you eat it.

• Let your lunch digest before swimming.
• The heavy meal took hours to digest.
• Does this food digest easily?

Common phrases: food will digest, let something digest, digest slowly

To sort written material into clear groups so it is easier to find and use.

• The scholar digested the laws by subject.
• They digested the records into clear sections.
• Her task was to digest scattered notes into an orderly account.

How to use it: digest something into something (The clerk digested the records into separate categories.)

Similar words: classify, arrange, organize

Common phrases: digest laws, digest records, digest into sections

A book, magazine, or other publication containing selected articles or shortened versions of other writing.

• I read a weekly news digest.
• The editor included three articles in the digest.
• Does this digest cover international news?

How to use it: digest of something (The newsletter provides a digest of recent articles.)

Similar words: compilation, summary publication

Common phrases: weekly digest, news digest, monthly digest

Information collected, sorted by subject, and presented in an easy-to-use form.

• The digest lists information under clear headings.
• He prepared a digest of the old records.
• We used her digest to find the relevant facts.

How to use it: digest of something (She prepared a digest of the research notes.)

Similar words: compendium, organized summary

Common phrases: a digest, detailed digest, digest of something

A collection of laws or court decisions, shortened and arranged by subject.

• The lawyer consulted a legal digest.
• This digest groups court decisions by subject.
• A new edition of the digest includes recent cases.

How to use it: digest of something (The library holds a digest of court decisions.)

Similar words: legal compendium

Common phrases: legal digest, case digest, digest of laws