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half-digested

adjective

  1. (of food, drink, etc) partially digested
  2. (of ideas, beliefs, etc) not entirely assimilated mentally

    half-digested tenets of the latest intellectual fads

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It smells of wet wool, body odor, cigarettes and heavy, half-digested dinners.

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Look inside the pitchers and you’ll find the half-digested bodies of the plants’ victims.

They are exemplars of seekers whose knowledge is fed by sketchy message boards and half-digested information pulled from podcasts and TED Talks, so much so that “Something in the Dirt” feels like a meta-commentary on people who really, really want to believe.

They are not entirely unknown: A few Arctic ingredients have made their way to balmier zones, via Nordic cooking, which gained 21st-century renown under the banner of René Redzepi’s Noma in Copenhagen, prompting chefs from Cleveland to Houston to experiment with reindeer lichen, a composite organism of fungus and alga, faintly bitter to the taste, that some Indigenous peoples harvest from the stomach of the animal, half-digested.

A roaring rain dance of half-digested banana, in front of a waiting class of trapeze students.

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