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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of digest.

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  • Single asteroids no larger than 200 kilometres across could explain the dust around each of the newly studied white dwarfs, and their remains could be gobbled up and 'digested' - sinking to the star's centre - in as little as 10,000 years.

    New Scientist - Online News 2009

  • "[w] hat has still to be digested is a romanticism that no amount of ideology finger-pointing will allow us to evade, a romanticism that undertakes a reflection on the relation of historical knowledge and aesthetic understanding" (SU, 60).

    Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence 2005

  • Vegetarian diets are not efficiently digested, which is fine when there is not a food shortage.

    The New Super-Nutrition Ph.D. Richard A. Passwater 1991

  • Vegetarian diets are not efficiently digested, which is fine when there is not a food shortage.

    The New Super-Nutrition Ph.D. Richard A. Passwater 1991

  • Non-vegetarian diets are usually efficiently digested, which is important when there are food shortages.

    The New Super-Nutrition Ph.D. Richard A. Passwater 1991

  • Non-vegetarian diets are usually efficiently digested, which is important when there are food shortages.

    The New Super-Nutrition Ph.D. Richard A. Passwater 1991

  • Or digested, which is an uncomfortable implication that leaps out of the piece at me.

    Media Influencer 2009

  • While moving between these ventricles, this spirit passes through the common space, where it is "digested" and converted into a "finer and clearer spirit" by mixture with the "power of the soul."

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • It goes into the sewage treatment system, and gets 'digested' into methane, CO2, and water.

    The NYT is trying to take away our toilet paper! Ann Althouse 2009

  • Alcohol is not "digested", it is broken down by the liver.

    This week... Joanna Bogle 2008

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