predigest

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verb

To digest food in advance of eating it

“Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims.”

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbpredigest (third-person singular simple present predigests, present participle predigesting, simple past and past participle predigested)

present singular third person predigests · participle present predigesting · participle past predigested · past predigested

  1. To digest food in advance of eating it

    Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims.

  2. 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, →ISBN
    1 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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
  4. Proto-Italic*prai
  5. Proto-Italic*prai-
  6. Latinprae-
  7. Middle Englishpre-
  8. Englishpre-
  9. Englishdigest
  10. Englishpredigest

From pre- + digest.

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Translations

Italian predigerire
  • predigerireto digest food in advance of eating it

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “predigest,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/predigest.

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