Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
digest .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word digested.
Examples
-
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.
-
"[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
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.