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di·gest

digest

 
 
pronunciation:
dih jest [or] daI jest
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part of speech: verb
inflections: digests, digesting, digested
definition: When your body digests food, it makes it into much smaller substances that the body can use for things like making energy and building muscle. The stomach is one of the organs that the body uses to digest food.
Your teeth help your body to digest food by breaking it up into smaller pieces that you can swallow.
similar words:
dissolve
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