<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system</li><li>to promote the digestion of (food)</li><li>to obtain information, ideas, or principles from; assimilate mentally: to digest a pamphlet on nuclear waste</li><li>to arrange methodically in the mind; think over: to digest a plan</li><li>to bear with patience; endure</li><li>to arrange in convenient or methodical order; reduce to a system; classify</li><li>to condense, abridge, or summarize</li><li>to soften or disintegrate (a substance) by means of moisture, heat, chemical action, or the like</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to digest food</li><li>to undergo digestion, as food</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a collection or compendium, usually of literary, historical, legal, or scientific matter, especially when classified or condensed</li><li>a systematic abstract of some body of law</li><li>the Digest, a collection in fifty books of excerpts, especially from the writings of the Classical Roman jurists, compiled by order of Justinian in the 6th century a.d.; the Pandects</li><li>the product of the action of an enzyme on food or other organic material</li></ul>