Synonyms:
digestion
Meaning: learning and coming to understand ideas and information; "his appetite for facts was better than his digestion"
Synonyms:
digestion
Meaning: the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body
Synonyms:
digestion
Meaning: the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat
Usage examples
Keep his digestion in good order, and disease will rarely trouble him.
His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked by a watering in one eye.
Rich and poor cook too much for taste and too little for nutrition or digestion.
Potatoes are also good, and although not so nutritious, or easy of digestion, as oatmeal, are less heating.
But if you must go on preaching, keep it till after dinner, when it will send me to sleep, and help my digestion.'
Lack of appetite, so common to pampered favourites, is generally the result of an overloaded stomach and disordered digestion.
Having finished the paper, a second cup of coffee and a roll and butter, he got up, shaking the crumbs of the roll off his waistcoat; and, squaring his broad chest, he smiled joyously: not because there was anything particularly agreeable in his mind--the joyous smile was evoked by a good digestion.