digest
Break down food
Digest centers on breaking down and absorbing.
The body digests food, extracting nutrients.
The mind digests information, processing it into understanding: Give me time to digest this news.
As a noun, a digest is a condensed summary of longer material—already broken down for easier consumption: a weekly news digest, Reader's Digest.
Condensed version of content
- overviewBroad general summary
- recapBrief review of events
- outlineSummary of key elements
- précisConcise summary of text
briefing · condensation · abridgment · rundown · wrap-up · highlights · abstract · capsule
Bound periodical with articles
- journalRecord of daily events
- periodicalRecurring printed publication
- newsletterPeriodic organizational publication
- bulletinBrief public announcement
gazette · almanac · review · compendium · anthology · compilation · abstract · roundup
Digestive organ below chest
- intestineDigestive tract organ
- gutDigestive tract, or instinct
- enzymeProtein that hastens reactions
- gastricOf the stomach
breakdown · absorption · nutrient · food · meal · pepsin · bile · acid
Grasp the meaning
- graspSeize or understand
- absorbTake in fully
- processSteps toward a result
- comprehendTo fully understand
assimilate · take in · make sense of · internalize · fathom · discern · interpret · apprehend
synopsis
Condensed version of content
précis · briefing · condensation · abridgment · rundown · wrap-up · highlights · abstract · capsule · snapshot
magazine
Bound periodical with articles
- journalRecord of daily events
- periodicalRecurring printed publication
- newsletterPeriodic organizational publication
bulletin · gazette · almanac · review · compendium · anthology · compilation · abstract · roundup · weekly
stomach
Digestive organ below chest
gastric · breakdown · absorption · nutrient · food · meal · pepsin · bile · acid · tract
understand
Grasp the meaning
comprehend · assimilate · take in · make sense of · internalize · fathom · discern · interpret · apprehend · follow
amylase
Starch-digesting enzyme
trypsin · lactase · papain · bromelain · pancreatin · catalyst · hydrolysis · substrate · maltase · sucrase
- journalsjournals, journal, diary, diaries, personal diaries
- understandunderstand, grasp, realize, comprehend, get it
- biology verbsgrow, divide, reproduce, evolve, mutate
- knowledgeknowledge, common knowledge, general knowledge, factual knowledge, prior knowledge
- mediatelevision, mass media, news, broadcasting, video
- readingfluency, read, comprehension, readers, books
digestmisunderstand
Grasp incorrectly
reject · refuse · confuse · misinterpret · misconstrue
- digestive tractInternal food processing passage
- digestive systemOrgans processing ingested food
- digestive biscuitSlightly sweet wheat cookie
- digestive enzymesFood-processing biological catalysts
- daily digestRecurring summary of news
- readers digestMagazine of abridged articles
digestion, indigestion, digestive, digesting, digestible, digests, digested, indigestible, digestions