digest
verb (used with object)
to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
had digested
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past perfectof digest.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Berti said Ali could get back on the acquisition trail once it had digested this deal.
From Reuters ● Jul. 29, 2022
Trump stood before the exhibit during a tour of the museum earlier this year but was talking to officials and gave little sign that he had digested its message.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2017
Although there was a short rally immediately after the tests, bank shares went into freefall once the market had digested the gory details.
From Reuters ● May 17, 2012
By the time he had digested the results, McCain was smiling broadly--the mirror image of primary night in New Hampshire, when he had won so big yet couldn't manage a smile.
From Time Magazine Archive
Men had digested food and reproduced their kind, thousands of years before physiologists had attained to a true theory of digestion or reproduction.
From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor
