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predigest

predigest verb: to digest food in advance of eating it.

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
    • Recycling Americana through predigested pop culture makes Monster Trucks seem indebted to Amblin movies of the ’80s, by way of the boy-and-his-car riff on those same movies Michael Bay half-assedly performed in the first Transformers.2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2017

Forms of predigest

third-person singular presentpredigests
present participlepredigesting
past participlepredigested
pastpredigested

Origin of predigest

From pre- + digest.

Questions about predigest

What does predigest mean?
Predigest means to digest food in advance of eating it.
What part of speech is predigest?
Predigest is a verb.
What is the past tense of predigest?
The past tense of predigest is predigested.

Words near predigest in the dictionary

  1. prediet
  2. predietary
  3. predifferentiated
  4. predifferentiation
  5. prediffusion
  6. predigest
  7. predigested
  8. predigesting
  9. predigestion
  10. predigestions
  11. predigests

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