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Digesting

verb
Word Frequency: 0.4

Definitions

1.verbTo distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
"to digest laws"
2.verbTo 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 convert into chyme.
3.verbTo 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.
4.verbTo bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
5.verbTo expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
6.verbTo undergo digestion.
"I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest."
7.verbTo suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
8.verbTo cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
9.verbTo ripen; to mature.
10.verbTo quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)

Synonyms

arrangesortsort outcompilationabsorbingassimilatingdigestiondigestibleingestingdigestibilitydigestantdevouring

Rhymes With

jestingrestinginvestingmanifestingtestingsuggestingquestingarresting
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