different between predigest vs redigest

English

Etymology

pre- +? digest

Verb

predigest (third-person singular simple present predigests, present participle predigesting, simple past and past participle predigested)

1. To digest food in advance of eating it

2. (by extension) To preprocess in order to deliver the most important parts in a simplified form.

Related terms

• digest
• predigestion

Translations

German

Pronunciation

Verb

predigest

1. second-person singular subjunctive I of predigen

English

Etymology

re- +? digest

Verb

redigest (third-person singular simple present redigests, present participle redigesting, simple past and past participle redigested)

1. (transitive) To digest again.
   • 1875, Alphonse René le Mire de Normandy, Henry Minchin Noad, The Commercial Hand-book of Chemical Analysis

     ...to treat the metal with nitro-hydrochloric acid, evaporate to dryness, redigest with hydrochloric acid, and then precipitate the filtered solution...

   • 1998, John James William Rogers, Paul Geoffrey Feiss, People and the Earth

     The ability of ruminants to rework their feed and continually redigest it enables them to gain more nourishment...

Anagrams

• Estridge, digester, estridge, gedrites