digestion

US /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/ See IPA manual

Freq #21513

Meanings

1

noun
learning and coming to understand ideas and information

Your appetite for facts was better than your digestion.
2

noun
the process of decomposing organic matter by bacteria or by chemical action or heat

Most organisms use digestion to get the sustenance they need.
3

noun
The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body.

In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; no digestion, circulation, or nutrition; […].
4

noun
the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body

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Word family

Derived forms aerodigestionautodigestionbiodigestioncodigestiondigestionalexodigestionmaldigestionnondigestionoverdigestionpostdigestionpredigestionredigestion

Related forms digest digester digestible

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gastric digestion
the breakdown of food, especially proteins, by digestive fluids in the stomach

Adjective + noun

Etymology

From Old French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English melting (“melting, digestion”).

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# digestion

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/
**Frequency rank:** 21513

## Meanings
1. learning and coming to understand ideas and information
2. the process of decomposing organic matter by bacteria or by chemical action or heat
3. The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body.
4. the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body

## Examples
- Your appetite for facts was better than your digestion.
- Most organisms use digestion to get the sustenance they need.
- In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; no digestion, circulation, or nutrition; […].

## Derived Forms
- aerodigestion
- autodigestion
- biodigestion
- codigestion
- digestional
- exodigestion
- maldigestion
- nondigestion
- overdigestion
- postdigestion
- predigestion
- redigestion

## Related Forms
- digest
- digester
- digestible

## Etymology
From Old French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English melting (“melting, digestion”).

## Topics
- Abstract Ideas

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