Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: digestion
IPA transcription: [daɪdʒ'ɛstʃən]
noun meaning of the word
  • 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.