to digest (food)
→
to tolerate, put up with
5 realizations
FAMILY: Indo-European
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 6852 | to digest (food) | → | to endure | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 50981) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | probaviti | |
| meaning 1 | to digest (food) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to accept some, usually unpleasant, fact | |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 50859) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Italian | |
| lexeme | digerire | |
| meaning 1 | to digest (food) | digerire il pranzo to digest one's lunch |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to tolerate, put up with | questa ingiustizia non la digerisco proprio I just can't stomach this injustice |
| reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 50860) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | переваривать | |
| 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 tolerate, put up with | Умных разговоров он не переваривал. (В. Чивилихин, Серебряные рельсы.) He couldn't stomach intellectual conversations. |
| reference | МАС | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 50971) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | сварити (svariti) | |
| meaning 1 | to digest (food) | сварити тешку храну to digest heavy food |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (colloquial) to tolerate, put up with | Не могу га сварим. I can't stand him. |
| reference | РСЈ: 1198 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 50864) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | digerir | |
| meaning 1 | to digest (food) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to tolerate, put up with | |
| reference | Real Academia Española Diccionario | |
| comment | ||
The second meaning is usually expressed in negative sentences.
Cf. also the English verb to stomach 'to tolerate': couldn't stomach office politics (Merriam-Webster).