half-digested
Britishadjective
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(of food, drink, etc) partially digested
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(of ideas, beliefs, etc) not entirely assimilated mentally
half-digested tenets of the latest intellectual fads
Example Sentences
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It smells of wet wool, body odor, cigarettes and heavy, half-digested dinners.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2023
Look inside the pitchers and you’ll find the half-digested bodies of the plants’ victims.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2023
Hawkins has vanished and is presumed murdered; a man is set to hang for his murder before Hawkins rolls, half-digested, from the leaf of a giant Venus flytrap.
From Nature • Feb. 6, 2017
I let Susan talk me through every rumour, assumption and piece of half-digested tittle-tattle on how 18-year-old Jessica Currin had met her death, each one more unlikely or unprovable than the last.
From BBC • May 17, 2013
Its eyes opened, and it vomited a quantity of half-digested whatever-it-ate onto his sleeve.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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