predigest

From pre- +‎ digest.

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

   Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims.

2. (by extension) To preprocess in order to deliver the most important parts in a simplified form.
   • 2013, Francine Prose, The Peaceable Kingdom, →ISBN:

     If what's happened is what Jenny secretly suspects—that the neighbor has run the cat over in his driveway—they would like to predigest the news and tell Philip themselves.

   • 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 July 2017:

     Recycling Americana through predigested pop culture makes Monster Trucks seem indebted to Amblin movies of the ’80s, by way of the boy-and-his-car riff on those same movies Michael Bay half-assedly performed in the first Transformers.

• digest
• predigestion

• prestiged, Prestidge

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predigest

1. second-person singular subjunctive I of predigen