predigestとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

predigest (三人称単数 現在形 predigests, 現在分詞 predigesting, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

関連する語

• digest
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