maldigest

present singular third person maldigests · participle present maldigesting · participle past maldigested · past maldigested

1. medicineTo digest poorly or in a less than perfect way.

   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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   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