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digest - a periodical that summarizes the news |
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periodical a publication that appears at fixed intervals
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digest - put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" |
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endure,
stomach,
bear,
stand,
tolerate,
support,
brook,
abide,
suffer |
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countenance,
permit,
let,
allow consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
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live with,
swallow,
accept believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"
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hold still for,
stand for tolerate or bear; "I won't stand for this kind of behavior!"
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bear up endure cheerfully; "She bore up under the enormous strain"
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take lying down suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively; "I won't take this insult lying down"
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take a joke listen to a joke at one's own expense; "Can't you take a joke?"
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sit out endure to the end
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pay bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action; "You'll pay for this!"; "She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly"; "You'll pay for this opinion later"
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suffer feel pain or be in pain
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digest - convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products" |
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ingest,
consume,
take in,
have,
take engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
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process,
treat subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill"
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stomach bear to eat; "He cannot stomach raw fish"
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predigest digest (food) beforehand
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digest - make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" |
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condense,
concentrate |
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abbreviate,
abridge,
foreshorten,
shorten,
contract,
reduce,
cut shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"
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capsule,
capsulise,
capsulize,
encapsulate enclose in a capsule
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telescope make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"
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digest - become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours" |
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digest soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
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change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
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digest - arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information" |
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get the picture,
grok,
savvy,
grasp,
apprehend,
compass,
comprehend,
dig get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
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digest - soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture |
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decompose,
break down,
break up separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
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digest - soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture |
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disintegrate break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died"
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digest - systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; "the government digested the entire law into a code" |
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systematise,
systematize,
systemise,
systemize arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge"
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