maldigest
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maldigest (third-person singular simple present maldigests, present participle maldigesting, simple past and past participle maldigested)
- (medicine) To digest poorly or in a less than perfect way.
- 1983, Mid-America: An Historical Review, page 29:
- I wouldn't want my sister to marry a Communist, and force me to maldigest my Sunday morning bagel arguing dialectics with a sectarian brother-in-law.
- 2010, Henry P. Parkman, GI Motility Testing: A Laboratory and Office Handbook[1], page 138:
- Healthy humans may maldigest or malabsorb carbohydrates.
- 2014, Marie Dunford, Nutrition for Sport and Exercise[2], page 145:
- In the United States, nearly 100 percent of Asian Americans and Native Americans maldigest lactose because their amount of lactase activity is very low.