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
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
One critic derided Mr. Bernal’s thesis as evidence of “a whirling confusion of half-digested reading.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2013
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
“The gold I grant you,” the dwarf said, relieved that he was not about to drown in a gout of half-digested eels and sweetmeats, “but the Rock is mine.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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