predigest

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Etymology

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From pre- +‎ digest.

Verb

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

  1. To digest food in advance of eating it
    Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims.
  2. (by extension) To preprocess in order to deliver the most important parts in a simplified form.
    • 2013, Francine Prose, The Peaceable Kingdom, →ISBN:
      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.
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Verb

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predigest

  1. second-person singular subjunctive I of predigen