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predigest en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English digest English predigest From pre- + digest.

Meanings

1. To digest food in advance of eating it
   • Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims.
2. (broadly) To preprocess in order to deliver the most important parts in a simplified form.
   • Recycling Americana through predigested pop culture makes Monster Trucks seem indebted to Amblin movies of the ’80s, by way of the boy-and-his-car riff on those same movies Michael Bay half-assedly performed in the first Transformers. 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2017:
   • If what's happened is what Jenny secretly suspects—that the neighbor has run the cat over in his driveway—they would like to predigest the news and tell Philip themselves. 2013, Francine Prose, The Peaceable Kingdom, →ISBN:

Forms

Relateds

digest · predigestion

Translations (1)

it predigerire (to digest food in advance of eating it)