digest
/daɪˈdʒest/verb
उच्चारण डाइजेस्ट
पचाना, हज़म करना, पचना
Core word
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[T, I]
when you digest food, or it digests, it is changed into substances that your body can use
पचाना, हज़म करना, पचना
- Some people find milk hard to digest.
- Rice digests easily.
- Babies cannot digest solid food in the first few months.
+ 2 more examples
- It is better to walk a little so that your food digests well.
- Fatty food takes longer to digest.
Synonyms absorb assimilate break down process
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[T]
to think about something so that you fully understand it
(बात को) समझना, आत्मसात करना, गले उतारना
- Radhika read the chapter twice to digest the new rules.
- It took me a while to digest the news.
- Give me some time to digest all this information.
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- The students found the long passage hard to digest in one reading.
- He needed a few days to digest the shock of losing the job.
Synonyms absorb take in grasp understand assimilate
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[C]
a short report containing the most important facts of a longer report or piece of writing; a collection of recent news
सारांश, सार-संग्रह, संक्षिप्त संकलन
- a weekly digest of current affairs
- a digest of the court's main decisions
- The magazine publishes a monthly digest of science news.
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- I read the digest of the report before the meeting.
- The editor prepared a short digest of readers' letters.
§Structures (grammar patterns) 4
digest + food (verb)
Used with food, digest means the body breaks it down into substances it can use. It can also be used without an object.
भोजन के साथ 'digest' का अर्थ है शरीर द्वारा उसे उपयोगी तत्त्वों में बदलना; इसे बिना object के भी प्रयोग किया जा सकता है।
- Rice digests more easily than fried food.
- A heavy meal takes hours to digest.
digest + information / news (verb)
Figuratively, digest means to think about something until you fully understand it, often a lot of facts or shocking news.
लाक्षणिक रूप में 'digest' का अर्थ किसी बात को सोचकर पूरी तरह समझना है, विशेषकर बहुत सारे तथ्य या चौंकाने वाली खबर।
- It took Radhika a few minutes to digest the result.
- Read each chapter slowly so that you can digest it.
a digest of + text (noun)
As a noun with the stress on the first syllable, digest means a short summary of a longer report or a collection of articles.
Noun के रूप में (पहले syllable पर stress) 'digest' किसी लंबी रिपोर्ट का संक्षिप्त सार या लेखों का संग्रह है।
- The magazine publishes a digest of the week's news.
- Please send me a digest of the report.
stress shift: DI-gest (n) / di-GEST (v)
The noun is stressed on the first syllable and the verb on the second.
Noun में stress पहले syllable पर और verb में दूसरे syllable पर पड़ता है।
- Reader's digest is a well-known magazine.
+Collocations 4
digest + noun
fooda mealinformationfactsthe newsan idea
- Give students time to digest what you have taught.
adverb + digest
easilyslowlyproperlyfullyquickly
- Milk is digested quickly by most children.
adjective + digest
weeklymonthlynewslegalshort
- I read the weekly news digest on Sunday.
difficult / hard to digest
hard to digesteasy to digestdifficult to digestunable to digest
- Spicy food is hard to digest at night.
“More examples 5
- Do not swim immediately after a meal, as your body needs time to digest.
भोजन के तुरंत बाद तैरिए नहीं, क्योंकि शरीर को पचाने के लिए समय चाहिए।
- The paragraph contained too many figures for readers to digest.
अनुच्छेद में इतने अधिक आँकड़े थे कि पाठक उन्हें आत्मसात नहीं कर सके।
- Banking aspirants subscribe to a monthly current affairs digest.
बैंकिंग परीक्षा के अभ्यर्थी मासिक current affairs digest मँगवाते हैं।
- Aman could not digest the idea that he had failed by one mark.
अमन यह बात पचा नहीं पाया कि वह केवल एक अंक से अनुत्तीर्ण हुआ था।
- Curd helps the stomach digest spicy food.
दही पेट को मसालेदार भोजन पचाने में मदद करता है।
!Common mistakes 2
✗ I have not digested yet my lunch.
✓ I have not yet digested my lunch.
Place the adverb yet before the past participle, not between the verb and its object.
Adverb 'yet' को past participle से पहले रखा जाता है, verb और object के बीच नहीं।
✗ The patient cannot digest properly the food.
✓ The patient cannot digest the food properly.
An adverb of manner normally comes after the object, not between the verb and the object.
Manner का adverb प्रायः object के बाद आता है, verb और object के बीच नहीं।
◇Word family
≈Synonyms and antonyms
Synonyms
absorb assimilate break down process take in grasp understand summary abstract synopsis précis outline
§Grammar and usage
The verb is stressed on the second syllable, di-GEST, and the noun on the first syllable, DI-gest.
Verb में stress दूसरे syllable पर (di-GEST) और noun में पहले syllable पर (DI-gest) आता है।