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pre-digest

pre-digest is the alternative form of predigest.

Meaning of predigest

Verb

predigest (third-person singular simple present predigests, present participle predigesting, simple past and past participle predigested)

  1. To digest food in advance of eating it
    • Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims.
  2. (broadly) To preprocess in order to deliver the most important parts in a simplified form.
    • 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.2013, Francine Prose, The Peaceable Kingdom, →ISBN

Forms of pre-digest

third-person singular presentpre-digests
present participlepre-digesting
past participlepre-digested
pastpre-digested

Questions about pre-digest

What is pre-digest the alternative form of?
Pre-digest is the alternative form of predigest.

Words near pre-digest in the dictionary

  1. pre-determines
  2. pre-determining
  3. pre-diabetes
  4. pre-diabetic
  5. pre-dialysis
  6. pre-digest
  7. pre-disco
  8. pre-disease
  9. pre-diseases
  10. pre-distillation
  11. pre-distortion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-digest (page history and authors); predigest (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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