<p><strong>Verb</strong> (used with object)</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>Chemistry: to soften or disintegrate (a substance) by means of moisture, heat, chemical action, or the like.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong> (used without object)</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>Biochemistry: the product of the action of an enzyme on food or other organic material.</li></ul>