1. past tense and past participle of redigest; to digest again or anew
Usage: technical; rare

Examples

• The food was redigested by the bird’s specialized stomach chambers.
• Scientists studied how certain nutrients are redigested in the intestinal tract.
• The material needed to be redigested before proper absorption could occur.
• After the initial breakdown, the proteins were redigested by different enzymes.
• The researcher found that some compounds were redigested multiple times during processing.