redigest

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verb

To digest again.

OriginEnglish digest ← Middle English re- ← Old French re- →
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Meanings

verbredigest (third-person singular simple present redigests, present participle redigesting, simple past and past participle redigested)

present singular third person redigests · participle present redigesting · participle past redigested · past redigested

  1. transitiveTo digest again.

    The ability of ruminants to rework their feed and continually redigest it enables them to gain more nourishment...

    1998, John James William Rogers, Paul Geoffrey Feiss, People and the Earth
    2 more examples

    ...to treat the metal with nitro-hydrochloric acid, evaporate to dryness, redigest with hydrochloric acid, and then precipitate the filtered solution...

    1875, Alphonse René le Mire de Normandy, Henry Minchin Noad, The Commercial Hand-book of Chemical Analysis

    ...but the professors had not digested their knowledge with practical execution in mind, with the result that my boy is having to redigest it.

    1938, John Green Sims, Whither, World?

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishdigest
  7. Englishredigest

From re- + digest.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

redigest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redigest

MLA

“redigest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redigest. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “redigest,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redigest.

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