Meanings
present singular third person predigests · participle present predigesting · participle past predigested · past predigested
- To digest food in advance of eating it
Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims.
- broadlyTo preprocess in order to deliver the most important parts in a simplified form.
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, →ISBN1 more example
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
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
- Proto-Italic*prai
- Proto-Italic*prai-
- Latinprae-
- Middle Englishpre-
- Englishpre-
- Englishdigest
- Englishpredigest
Translations
Italian predigerire
- predigerireto digest food in advance of eating it
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predigest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/predigest
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