predigest

verb

Etymology

From pre- + digest.

  1. derived from dīgestus
  2. inherited from digesten
  3. prefixed as predigest — “pre- + digest

Definitions

  1. To digest food in advance of eating it

    • Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims.
  2. To preprocess in order to deliver the most important parts in a simplified form.

    • 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.
    • Recycling Americana through predigested pop culture makes Monster Trucks seem indebted to Amblin movies of the ’80s, by way of the boy-and-his-car riff on those same movies Michael Bay half-assedly performed in the first Transformers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for predigest. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA