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say it: dahy-JEST
digest is a verb and noun meaning "convert food into absorbable substances". It carries 10 recorded senses.
put up with something or somebody unpleasant
“I cannot bear his constant criticism”
“The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks”
“he learned to tolerate the heat”
“She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage”
systematize, as by classifying and summarizing
“the government digested the entire law into a code”
soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
make more concise
“condense the contents of a book into a summary”
soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
a periodical that summarizes the news
something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for digest come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.