Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Inability to digest or difficulty in digesting something, especially food.
  • noun Discomfort or illness resulting from this inability or difficulty.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of digestion; incapability of or difficulty in digesting food; dyspepsia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Discomfort due to a lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A common medical condition most often caused by eating too quickly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea

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Examples

  • He ate slowly and little, for he had what he called indigestion, whatever that was.

    In Happy Valley John Fox 1891

  • I am becoming morbid, and my old indigestion is hinting and muttering.

    THE ETERNITY OF FORMS 2010

  • These creatures would feast on Mexican insects and have no more trouble than a slight case of indigestion from the effort.

    Insects 2005

  • He enjoys a good dinner, good wine, and ladies 'society, but just sufficiently to make his leisure hours pass pleasantly, without indigestion from the first, headaches from the second, or heartaches from the third.

    Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

  • In addition, when cows are force-fed grain instead of their natural food—grasses—they produce more methane in their digestive systems and suffer indigestion, which is treated with antibiotics.

    Archive 2009-04-27 2009

  • In addition, when cows are force-fed grain instead of their natural food—grasses—they produce more methane in their digestive systems and suffer indigestion, which is treated with antibiotics.

    Kyoto Action Report : Here Come the Cows 2009

  • ‘The stomach is the house of disease, and diet is the head of healing; for the origin of all sickness is indigestion, that is to say, corruption of the meat’ — And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the damsel said to the doctor, “‘The stomach is the house of disease and diet is the head of healing; for the origin of all sickness is indigestion, that is to say, corruption of the meat in the stomach;’” he rejoined, “Thou hast replied aright! what sayest thou of the Hammam?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • DYSPEPSIA–Also called indigestion, this is an uncomfortable feeling of fullness and bloating after eating.

    The Most Complete Food Counter, 2nd Edition Annette B. Natow Ph.d. 2006

  • If the indigestion is the result of a slower process, the stomach does not participate in the process.

    The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

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