Usually means: Breaking down food for absorption.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. digestion: Merriam-Webster
  2. digestion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. digestion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. digestion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. digestion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Digestion: Wordnik
  7. digestion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. digestion: Wiktionary
  9. digestion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. digestion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. digestion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. digestion: Dictionary.com
  13. digestion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Digestion (alchemy), Digestion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Digestion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. digestion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. digestion: Rhymezone
  18. digestion, digestion (f), digestin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. digestion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. digestion: FreeDictionary.org
  21. digestion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. digestion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. digestion: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. digestion: Wordnik
  25. digestion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. digestion: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. digestion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. digestion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Digestion: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. digestion: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. digestion: Medical dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body.
noun:  The result of this process.
noun:  The ability to use this process.
noun:  The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms.
noun:  The assimilation and understanding of ideas.
noun:  (medicine, archaic) Generation of pus; suppuration.
noun:  (chemistry) Dissolution of a sample into a solution by means of adding acid and heat.

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