digestion

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat
noun the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body
noun learning and coming to understand ideas and information

From Old French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English melting (“melting, digestion”).

Perhaps my digestion was bad. — Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant
There was no pause for digestion. — Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street, Herman Melville
They were not hard of digestion. — Antony Gray,—Gardener, LM (Leslie Moore)

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