Predigest

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To digest food in advance of eating it

    "Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims."

  2. 2
    digest (food) beforehand wordnet
  3. 3
    To preprocess in order to deliver the most important parts in a simplified form. broadly

    "If what's happened is what Jenny secretly suspects—that the neighbor has run the cat over in his driveway—they would like to predigest the news and tell Philip themselves."

Synonyms

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absorbappropriateassimilatedigest

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"Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims."

Etymology

From pre- + digest.

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