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maldigest en · VERB

Etymology

From mal- + digest.

Meanings

1. To digest poorly or in a less than perfect way.
   • I wouldn't want my sister to marry a Communist, and force me to maldigest my Sunday morning bagel arguing dialectics with a sectarian brother-in-law. 1983, Mid-America: An Historical Review, page 29:
   • In the United States, nearly 100 percent of Asian Americans and Native Americans maldigest lactose because their amount of lactase activity is very low. 2014, Marie Dunford, Nutrition for Sport and Exercise, page 145:
   • Healthy humans may maldigest or malabsorb carbohydrates. 2010, Henry P. Parkman, GI Motility Testing: A Laboratory and Office Handbook, page 138:

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