predigest
English
Etymology
pre- + digest
Verb
predigest (third-person singular simple present predigests, present participle predigesting, simple past and past participle predigested)
- To digest food in advance of eating it
- Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims.
- (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.
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Related terms
- digest
- predigestion
Translations
to digest food in advance of eating it
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German
Verb
predigest
- Second-person singular subjunctive I of predigen.