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Difficult to Digest

Description

Difficult to digest refers to something that is not easily comprehended, accepted, or understood.

Senses and Usages

Adjective

1. If a food or substance is difficult to digest, it means it takes a longer time or poses challenges for the body to break it down.

Example sentence: The combination of spices in this curry dish can make it difficult to digest for some people.

2. When used figuratively, difficult to digest implies that a concept or idea is complex or hard to accept intellectually or emotionally.

Example sentence: The information provided in this physics textbook is difficult to digest for most high school students.

Verb

1. You can use difficult to digest as a verb phrase to describe the action of struggling to understand or accept something.

Example sentence: The intricate plot twists and layered narrative in the novel make it difficult to digest for casual readers.

Idiom

1. The idiomatic expression "difficult to digest" is often used to describe a situation or news that is hard to accept or handle emotionally.

Example sentence: Losing the championship match was a bitter pill to swallow and difficult to digest.