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  1. transitive verb Physiology To convert (food) into simpler chemical compounds that can be absorbed and assimilated by the body, as by chemical and muscular action in the alimentary canal.
  2. transitive verb To absorb or assimilate mentally.
  3. transitive verb To organize into a systematic arrangement, usually by summarizing or classifying.
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  • Registration for the site and the Games Press email digest is available, to the trade only, at —  GamesIndustry.biz - News
  • So much to digest, and I'll try to do that in my column for tomorrow.
  • The PSNI have one more big reform left to digest, the devolution of policing and justice. —  Slugger O'Toole
  • On another note: I really miss "PLAYGROUND" - aka the digest-sized supplement to MILK where it specifically featured toys, since discontinued years ago. —  TOYSREVILs I LIKE TOYS
  • And when is there too much information to digest, anyway? —  AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
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  1. Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgerere, dīgest-, to separate, arrange : dī-, dis-, apart; see dis- + gerere, to carry. N., from Latin dīgesta, neuter pl. of dīgestus, past participle of dīgerere, to separate.

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  1. from Middle English digest, only as past participle, from Latin digestus, past participle of digerere (later Italian digerire = Spanish Portuguese digerir = French digérer), carry apart, separate, divide, distribute, arrange, set in order, digest, dissolve, from di- for dis-, apart, + gerere, carry: see gest, jest. Cf. equivalent disgest.
  2. from Middle English digest = French digeste = Spanish Portuguese Italian digesto, from Late Latin digestion, usually in plural digesta, a collection of writings arranged under different heads, especially of Justinian's code of laws, the Pandects; neuter of Latin digestus, past participle of digerere, distribute, set in order, arrange: see digest, v.
 

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