Words / B2

dy-JEST/daɪˈdʒest/

To digest is to break food down, or to take in information: digest a meal; digest the findings. A digest /ˈdaɪdʒest/ is a summary (noun, different stress). Understand is wider; absorb is close for reading. Give a week to digest new boundaries. Do not mix with ingest (take in as food) unless you mean that precisely.

Meaning

To break food down in the body; also to take in and understand information.

Examples

• “Give the cohort a week to digest the new grade boundaries.”
• “A weekly digest of papers is the noun, stressed on the first syllable.”

Good to know

digest food / information. Noun: a digest /ˈdaɪdʒest/. Close (reading): absorb. Mix-up: ingest. Biology and academic advice. Stress changes with POS.

Near in meaning

absorb

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