predigest

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  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. broadly
    — 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.

词形变化

predigests present,singular,third-person predigesting participle,present predigested participle,past predigested past

词汇关系

相关词
digest predigestion

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English digest
English predigest
From pre- + digest.
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