A natural diet is suitable for human digestion.
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Digestion
//daɪˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən//
Synonyms for "digestion" (68 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (34)
Related word relations
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7 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
14 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
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1 entriesTranslations
135 translations across 77 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- spysvertering noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- vertering noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Albanian
1 entries- tretje noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πέψις noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Arabic
2 entries- هضم noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- هَضْم noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Armenian
1 entries- մարսողություն noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- həzm noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- mənimsəmə noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Belarusian
1 entries- стравава́нне noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Bengali
1 entries- পরিপাক noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Bulgarian
2 entries- храносми́лане noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- храносмилане noun (ability to use this process)
Carpathian Rusyn
2 entries- діґесція noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- травлїня noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 消化 noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Czech
1 entries- trávení noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Danish
1 entries- fordøjelse noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Dutch
4 entries- assimilatie noun (assimilation and understanding of ideas)
- spijsvertering noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- verteren noun (processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms)
- vertering noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Esperanto
1 entries- digesto noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Estonian
1 entries- seedimine noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Faroese
1 entries- sodning noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Finnish
3 entries- hajottaminen noun (processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms)
- ruoansulatus noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- ruuansulatus noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
French
1 entries- digestion noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Galician
4 entries- asimilación noun (assimilation and understanding of ideas)
- descomposición noun (processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms)
- dixestión noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- dixestión noun (result of this process)
Georgian
2 entries- ათვისება noun (assimilation and understanding of ideas)
- მონელება noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
German
1 entries- Verdauung noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Greek
4 entries- αποσύνθεση noun (processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms)
- αφομοίωση noun (assimilation and understanding of ideas)
- πέψη noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- πέψη noun (result of this process)
Hebrew
1 entries- עיכול \ עִכּוּל noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Hindi
3 entries- पाचन noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- हज़म noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- हाज़मा noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Hungarian
1 entries- emésztés noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Icelandic
1 entries- melting noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Indonesian
1 entries- pencernaan noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Irish
1 entries- díleá noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Italian
4 entries- assimilazione noun (assimilation and understanding of ideas)
- decomposizione noun (processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms)
- digestione noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- digestione noun (result of this process)
Japanese
1 entries- 消化 noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Kazakh
2 entries- асқорыту noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- қорыту noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Khmer
2 entries- ការរំលាយអាហារ noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- ជីរណា noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Korean
1 entries- 소화 noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- сиңирүү noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- тамак сиңирүү noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Lao
1 entries- ການຍ່ອຽອາຫານ noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Latin
1 entries- digestio noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Latvian
1 entries- gremošana noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Lithuanian
1 entries- virškinimas noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- póžywanje noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Macedonian
2 entries- варење noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- дигестија noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Malay
1 entries- pencernaan noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Malayalam
1 entries- ദഹനം noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Mirandese
1 entries- digeston noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Mongolian
1 entries- хоолны шингэц noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Māori
1 entries- whakangawheretanga noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Nahuatl
1 entries- tlatemohuiliztli noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- heris noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- heriskirin noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- herisîn noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- hezm noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fordøyelse noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- fordøying noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- matmelting noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- melting noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Old English
1 entries- melting noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Pashto
3 entries- هاضمه noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- هضم noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- هضمېدنه noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Persian
2 entries- هضم noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- گوارش noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Polish
1 entries- trawienie noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Portuguese
1 entries- digestão noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Romanian
2 entries- digestie noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- digestie noun (result of this process)
Russian
2 entries- переварива́ние noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- пищеваре́ние noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Sanskrit
2 entries- जीर्ण noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- पाचन noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- meirbheadh noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- meirbheadh noun (result of this process)
- meirbheadh noun (ability to use this process)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- varenje noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- варење noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Slovak
1 entries- trávenie noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Slovene
1 entries- prebava noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Spanish
4 entries- asimilación noun (assimilation and understanding of ideas)
- descomposición noun (processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms)
- digestión noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- digestión noun (result of this process)
Swedish
2 entries- matsmältning noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- matspjälkning noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Tajik
1 entries- ҳазм noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Telugu
2 entries- జీర్ణము noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- హరాయించుకొను noun (assimilation and understanding of ideas)
Thai
1 entries- การย่อยอาหาร noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Turkish
1 entries- sindirim noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Turkmen
1 entries- siňdiriş noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Ukrainian
1 entries- тра́влення noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- požiwanje noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Urdu
2 entries- ہاضمہ noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- ہضم noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Uzbek
1 entries- hazm noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Vietnamese
2 entries- hệ tiêu hóa noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- sự tiêu hóa noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Volapük
2 entries- dicet noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- dicetam noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Welsh
1 entries- traul noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
West-Frisian
2 entries- fertarring noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
- spiisfertarring noun (process in gastrointestinal tract)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Natural food is not always good for our digestion.
Source: tatoeba (264469)
Drinking wine aids digestion.
Source: tatoeba (1476753)
The better cooked the meat is, the quicker its digestion.
Source: tatoeba (2759239)
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