Usually means: Break down food for absorption.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. digest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. digest, the Digest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. digest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. digest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. digest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Digest, digest: Wordnik
  7. digest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. digest: Wiktionary
  9. digest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. digest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. digest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. digest, the digest: Dictionary.com
  13. digest (n.), digest (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. digest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Digest (Roman law), Digest (disambiguation), Digest, The Digest (magazine), The Digest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Digest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. digest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. digest: Rhymezone
  19. Digest (m), digest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. digest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Digest: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. digest: Free Dictionary
  23. digest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. digest, the Digest: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Digest: Toonopedia
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. digest: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Digest: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  6. digest, the Digest: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. digest: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. digest: CCI Computer
  3. digest, the Digest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. digest, the Digest: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. DIGEST: Acronym Finder
  3. DIGEST: Masonic Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Digest: Biology dictionary
  2. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. digest: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DIGEST: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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