Synonyms for digest
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Stomach
stomach, put up, tolerate, bear, endure, support, stick out, stand, suffer, abide, brook, swallow, sustain
2. Sort — to distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or…
3. Condense
4. Ponder
Other
Noun
1. Summary
summary, compendium, brief, sum, abstract, compilation, synopsis, syllabus, upshot, abridgment US, abridgement UK, epitome, conspectus, compend, outline
Definitions
- v. 1
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
- v. 2
To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
- v. 3
To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
- n. 1
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
Related words
- Word family
- digestedly
Choose the right word
An abstract or digest is an independent statement of what the book contains. We may have an abridgment of a dictionary, but not an analysis, abstract, digest, or summary.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- suffer The love that I suffer from is a shameful disease.
- stomach I felt a sharp pain in my stomach all of a sudden.
- ponder These are very disconcerting questions to ponder.
- assimilate The US attempted to assimilate Native Americans.
By length
- 3 letters
- sum1
- 4 letters
- code1, sort1, bear1
- 5 letters
- study2, stand1, brief1, brook1, abide2
- 6 letters
- master2, suffer2, endure2, ponder2, upshot2, codify3
- 7 letters
- support2, stomach2, summary3, arrange2, swallow2, sustain2, outline2, epitome4, compend, pandect
- 8 letters
- consider3, abstract2, tolerate3, classify3, synopsis3, meditate3, syllabus3, condense2
- 10 letters
- assimilate4, compendium4, abridgment, conspectus
- 11 letters
- concentrate3, compilation4, contemplate3, abridgement3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (study2 = 2 syllables).