Usually means: Breaking down food for absorption.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. digesting: Merriam-Webster
  2. digesting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. digesting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Digesting, digesting: Wordnik
  5. digesting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. digesting: Wiktionary
  7. Digesting, digesting: Dictionary.com
  8. digesting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Digesting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Digesting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. digesting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. digesting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. digesting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. digesting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. digesting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. digesting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. digesting: Medical dictionary

(Note: See digest as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (digest)

verb:  (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
verb:  (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
verb:  (transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
verb:  To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
verb:  (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
verb:  (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
verb:  (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)
noun:  That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
noun:  A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
noun:  Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
noun:  (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
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