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say it: dahy-JES-chuhn
digestion is a noun meaning "the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat". It is pronounced /daɪˈdʒɛstʃən/ — dahy-JES-chuhn. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat
the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body
learning and coming to understand ideas and information
“his appetite for facts was better than his digestion”
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 digestion 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.