Meaning

• To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

  "to digest laws"

• To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

• To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.

• To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

• To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

• To undergo digestion.

  "I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest."

• To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

• To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.

• To ripen; to mature.

• To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)