predigest

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ digest.

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. (by extension) To preprocess in order to deliver the most important parts in a simplified form.
   • 2013, Francine Prose, The Peaceable Kingdom, →ISBN:

     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.

Related terms

• digest
• predigestion

Translations

to digest food in advance of eating it

• Italian: predigerire

Anagrams

• prestiged, Prestidge

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

predigest

1. second-person singular subjunctive I of predigen