📄 A summary 🍽️ To break down 🧠 To absorb ideas ✂️ To summarize 🔢 A data code

to digest

6 4.1

To make long information shorter by giving its main points

verb
/dɪˈdʒɛst/

: resumir

In the United States, advertisers have been using data to digest consumer behavior for decades.

And then the defense has to take what is normally years worth of investigation, digest that, do an investigation, get ready for trial.

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Examples

Well-constructed infographics are fun, thought-provoking, easy to digest, and visually pleasing.

Blog text (6)
And then the defense has to take what is normally years worth of investigation, digest that, do an investigation, get ready for trial.

Megyn Kelly
Our health system needs to digest it and then determine when and how to move to it.

Blog text (27)
Let's pause for a moment and let you digest what I have just said.
Think the big question will be how treasuries move going into Monday as people digest this and as we get our budget from Mike Johnson.
Open means making information available for the press to access, to digest, to analyze, to critique, to disseminate.
In 2011, people researched and digested 10.4 unique pieces of content before making a purchasing decision.

Blog text (23)
To emphasize the practice-oriented data analysis, this section begins by overviewing how the detailed findings were digested into meaningful themes and strategies.

Academic text (1997)
After the meeting, she took some time to digest all the feedback from her colleagues.
It's important to digest the main points of an article before discussing it further.

Synonyms

to summarize

vsto digest

90 3.0

Present the main points of a text in a short, clear way

focuses on shortening information rather than only listing main points

to reduce

vsto digest

71 2.8

To make something simpler by cutting out details

focuses on concise summary of information rather than general simplification

to condense

vsto digest

21 4.2

Make something shorter by removing unimportant details

focuses on creating a concise restatement rather than only trimming details

to encapsulate

vsto digest

18 6.1

Express the main idea in a few words

aims at reducing length overall rather than packaging essentials

to concentrate

vsto digest

1 4.0

To make writing or speech shorter and clearer

focuses on selecting main ideas rather than only cutting length or volume

to synopsize

vsto digest

1 6.4

To give a short summary of the main points

shortens details into concise form rather than offering an overview

to capsulize

vsto digest

1 8.2

To put ideas or information into a short summary

compresses information broadly rather than only making it very short

to precis

vsto digest

8.0

To make a short summary of a text or speech

condenses material generally rather than only formal texts

to capsule

vsto digest

6.7

To make a long text shorter by giving its main points

is about general shortening rather than packaging ideas into a neat form

to recondense

vsto digest

8.1

To make a text shorter again by removing extra words

is about initial shortening rather than repeating compression a second time

Antonyms

to expand

225 3.5

To add more details to explain something better

How Concise

to abridge

6.7

to condense

21 4.2

to digest

6 4.1

to summarize

90 3.0

to outline

148 3.3

Surface Forms

digest infinitive

digested past

digested past participle

digesting present participle

digests third person singular

Etymology

The word digest meaning 'to make a shorter summary' also comes from Latin dis- 'apart' and gest 'carry', so it originally meant 'to arrange' parts into a new form. That is why to digest a long report is to turn it into a short, clear version.