to digest (food) to process mentally 9 realizations MACROAREA: Eurasia
ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 50854)
type Polysemy
language English
lexeme to digest
meaning 1 to digest (food)

Most babies can digest a wide range of food easily.

direction
meaning 2 to understand

I struggled to digest the news.

reference LDOCE
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ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 50855)
type Polysemy
language French
lexeme digérer
meaning 1 to digest (food)

Je digère mal les graisses.


I have trouble digesting fats.

direction
meaning 2 to understand

Il n'a pas digéré ses lectures.


He didn't really take in what he read.

reference Larousse online
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ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 50862)
type Polysemy
language German
lexeme verdauen
meaning 1 to digest (food)

das Essen verdauen


to digest food

direction
meaning 2 to understand

diese Lektüre ist schwer zu verdauen


this reading is hard to digest

reference Duden
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NEW Realization 4 (ID: 50999)
type Polysemy
language Hungarian
lexeme megemészt
meaning 1 to digest (food)

A beteg nem bírta megemészteni a nehéz ételt.


The patient couldn't digest the heavy meal.

direction
meaning 2 to process mentally

A tanultakat jól meg kell emészteni. 


You need to really take in what you've learned. 

reference MEK 1978
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ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 50972)
type Polysemy
language Modern Written Arabic
lexeme هَضَمَ haḏama
meaning 1 to digest (food or medicine)

sūʔ-u l-haḏm-i


indigestion (lit. the evil of digestion)
direction
meaning 2 to fall into a habit; to take in a lecture, etc.

haḏama ad-dars-a


to digest (i.e. learn) the lesson

reference Baranov: II 116
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ACCEPTED Realization 6 (ID: 50856)
type Polysemy
language Norwegian
lexeme fordøye
meaning 1 to digest (food)

fordøye maten


to digest food

direction
meaning 2 to understand

fordøye lesestoffet


to process the reading material

reference BO
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ACCEPTED Realization 7 (ID: 50861)
type Polysemy
language Russian
lexeme переварить
meaning 1 to digest (food)

Нужен моцион матроса, чтобы переварить эти куски солонины и лук с вареною капустой. (И. Гончаров, Фрегат «Паллада»)


It takes a sailor's appetite to digest these chunks of salted pork, onions, and boiled cabbage.

direction
meaning 2 to understand

Вы, Мерцалов, видно, читали по этому вопросу, к сожалению, только совершенно не переварили того, что прочли. (Вересаев, В юные годы)


It seems, Mertsalov, that you have read up on this subject, but unfortunately, you haven't really taken in what you've read.

reference МАС
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ACCEPTED Realization 8 (ID: 50863)
type Polysemy
language Spanish
lexeme digerir
meaning 1 to digest (food)
direction
meaning 2 to understand
reference Real Academia Española Diccionario
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ACCEPTED Realization 9 (ID: 50857)
type Polysemy
language Swedish
lexeme smälta
meaning 1 to digest (food)

smälta maten


to digest food

direction
meaning 2 to understand

smälta intrycken


to process the impressions

reference SAO
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