undigested

[US]/ʌndɪ'dʒestɪd/
[UK]/ˌʌndə'dʒɛstɪd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. not digested; not fully understood; not sorted out; disordered

Phrases & Collocations

undigested food

undigested material

Example Sentences

undigested food residue

an undigested mass of facts gathered at random

Undigested protein begins to rot and putrefy in your tummy.

Real-world Examples

Rob, what does she mean by undigested?

Source: 6 Minute English

Without digestive enzymes, fat might pass right through the intestines undigested, leading to greasy and smelly stools—called steatorrhea.

Source: Osmosis - Digestion

When you vomit, do you bring up digested food, undigested food or bile?

Source: Doctor-Patient Conversation in English

Once the nutrients are absorbed, the undigested waste matter is released from the mouth.

Source: The Great Science Revelation

So Mary Bousted says the skills and abilities learnt in war can't be translated undigested into teaching.

Source: 6 Minute English

We even know the Lindow Man's last meal— a still undigested piece of charred bread.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

Japan's current tiffs with its neighbours, China and South Korea, are rooted in the march to war and its undigested aftermath, more than 75 years ago.

Source: The Economist - Arts

Since they don't digest bamboo very well, pandas end up passing a lot of it as waste, which unsurprisingly contains a lot of undigested bamboo bits.

Source: National Geographic Science Popularization (Video Version)

But the assumption isn't that brain chemistry is where the problem either begins or ends; the despair is caused by an undigested, unknown and unresolved trauma.

Source: Daily English Listening | Bilingual Intensive Reading

But perhaps none was as strange as the tapeworm diet, in which dieters swallowed an unhatched tapeworm and let it grow inside them by consuming undigested meals.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

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