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say it: dahy-JEST
digest is a verb and noun meaning "convert food into absorbable substances". It is pronounced /daɪˈdʒɛst/ — dahy-JEST. 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.