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sindirmek — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • digest verb To break food down in the stomach and intestines so the body can absorb its nutrients.
  • intimidate verb To frighten or pressure someone, often through threats, so they do what you want.

Senses

sindirmek is used for these senses in English:

  • break down (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
  • break down (ergative) To (cause to) decay, to decompose.
  • digest (transitive) 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.
  • intimidate (transitive) To make timid or afraid; to cause to feel fear or nervousness; to deter, especially by threats of violence.

digest — full definition

  1. verb To break food down in the stomach and intestines so the body can absorb its nutrients.
  2. verb To think over and fully take in information or an idea.
  3. noun A short summary of longer material, or a periodical made up of such summaries.

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