| digest | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. digest | a periodical that summarizes the news. |
| ~ periodical | a publication that appears at fixed intervals. |
| n. (communication) | 2. compilation, digest | something that is compiled (as into a single book or file). |
| ~ compendium, collection | a publication containing a variety of works. |
| v. (consumption) | 3. digest | convert food into absorbable substances.; "I cannot digest milk products" |
| ~ digest | become assimilated into the body.; "Protein digests in a few hours" |
| ~ process, treat | subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition.; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals"; "treat an oil spill" |
| ~ ingest, consume, have, take in, take | serve oneself to, or consume regularly.; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
| ~ stomach | bear to eat.; "He cannot stomach raw fish" |
| ~ predigest | digest (food) beforehand. |
| v. (cognition) | 4. digest | arrange and integrate in the mind.; "I cannot digest all this information" |
| ~ apprehend, comprehend, get the picture, grok, savvy, grasp, compass, dig | get the meaning of something.; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" |
| v. (cognition) | 5. abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate | put up with something or somebody unpleasant.; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" |
| ~ live with, accept, swallow | tolerate or accommodate oneself to.; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" |
| ~ hold still for, stand for | tolerate or bear.; "I won't stand for this kind of behavior!" |
| ~ bear up | endure cheerfully.; "She bore up under the enormous strain" |
| ~ take lying down | suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively.; "I won't take this insult lying down" |
| ~ take a joke | listen to a joke at one's own expense.; "Can't you take a joke?" |
| ~ sit out | endure to the end. |
| ~ pay | bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action.; "You'll pay for this!"; "She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly"; "You'll pay for this opinion later" |
| ~ countenance, permit, allow, let | consent to, give permission.; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" |
| ~ suffer | experience (emotional) pain.; "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers" |
| v. (change) | 6. digest | become assimilated into the body.; "Protein digests in a few hours" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ digest | convert food into absorbable substances.; "I cannot digest milk products" |
| v. (change) | 7. digest | systematize, as by classifying and summarizing.; "the government digested the entire law into a code" |
| ~ systematise, systematize, systemise, systemize | arrange according to a system or reduce to a system.; "systematize our scientific knowledge" |
| v. (change) | 8. digest | soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture. |
| ~ digest | soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture. |
| ~ disintegrate | break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity.; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died" |
| v. (change) | 9. concentrate, condense, digest | make more concise.; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" |
| ~ abbreviate, abridge, foreshorten, shorten, contract, reduce, cut | reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.; "The manuscript must be shortened" |
| ~ capsule, capsulise, capsulize, encapsulate | put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume.; "capsulize the news" |
| ~ telescope | make smaller or shorter.; "the novel was telescoped into a short play" |
| v. (change) | 10. digest | soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture. |
| ~ decompose, break down, break up | separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts. |
| ~ digest | soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture. |
| dissolve | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. dissolve | (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out. |
| ~ transition | a passage that connects a topic to one that follows. |
| v. (change) | 2. dissolve, fade away, fade out | become weaker.; "The sound faded out" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| ~ dissolve | cause to fade away.; "dissolve a shot or a picture" |
| v. (change) | 3. break up, dissolve, resolve | cause to go into a solution.; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water" |
| ~ change integrity | change in physical make-up. |
| ~ melt, melt down, run | reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating.; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun" |
| ~ dissolve | pass into a solution.; "The sugar quickly dissolved in the coffee" |
| ~ cut | dissolve by breaking down the fat of.; "soap cuts grease" |
| v. (change) | 4. break up, dissolve | come to an end.; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up" |
| ~ terminate, end | bring to an end or halt.; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
| v. (motion) | 5. disband, dissolve | stop functioning or cohering as a unit.; "The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting" |
| ~ break up | come apart.; "the group broke up" |
| v. (emotion) | 6. dissolve | cause to lose control emotionally.; "The news dissolved her into tears" |
| ~ dissolve | lose control emotionally.; "She dissolved into tears when she heard that she had lost all her savings in the pyramid scheme" |
| ~ discomfit, discompose, untune, disconcert, upset | cause to lose one's composure. |
| v. (emotion) | 7. dissolve | lose control emotionally.; "She dissolved into tears when she heard that she had lost all her savings in the pyramid scheme" |
| ~ lose it, break down, snap | lose control of one's emotions.; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby died, she snapped" |
| ~ dissolve | cause to lose control emotionally.; "The news dissolved her into tears" |
| v. (change) | 8. dissolve | cause to fade away.; "dissolve a shot or a picture" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ dissolve, fade away, fade out | become weaker.; "The sound faded out" |
| ~ etch | selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons. |
| v. (change) | 9. dissolve | pass into a solution.; "The sugar quickly dissolved in the coffee" |
| ~ disintegrate | break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity.; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died" |
| v. (change) | 10. dethaw, dissolve, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw | become or cause to become soft or liquid.; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat" |
| ~ deliquesce | melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.; "this type of salt deliquesces easily" |
| ~ de-ice, defrost, deice | make or become free of frost or ice.; "Defrost the car window" |
| ~ flux, liquify, liquefy | become liquid or fluid when heated.; "the frozen fat liquefied" |
| v. (change) | 11. break up, dissolve | bring the association of to an end or cause to break up.; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company" |
| ~ dismiss, dissolve | declare void.; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections" |
| ~ terminate, end | bring to an end or halt.; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
| v. (change) | 12. dismiss, dissolve | declare void.; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ dissolve, break up | bring the association of to an end or cause to break up.; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company" |
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