digest
verb (used with object)
to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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"Pray go on," Polyhistor said; "I am digesting in silence."
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes