verb

1. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

   “to digest laws”

2. 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.

3. To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.

Synonyms: arrange, sort, sort out, sort out