Advanced Vocabulary - To Process Food in the Body

To Process Food in the Body

digest verb

when your stomach digests food, it changes it into the substances that your body needs.

assimilate verb

to take in and use food or other nutrients.

go down

if food or drink goes down, you swallow it.

burn verb

to use fat or energy in your body.

down adjective, adverb, preposition

when food or drink goes down, it goes from your mouth to your stomach.

absorb verb

to take in a gas, liquid, or other substance.

stay down

if food that you have eaten stays down, it stays in your stomach and you are not sick.

ingest verb

biology to take food or drink into the body.

metabolise

a British spelling of metabolize.

metabolize verb

biology if your body metabolizes food, oxygen etc, it changes it into a form that can be used as energy.

respire verb

medical to breathe.

respire verb

biology a body respires when it produces energy from food.

ingestion noun

  

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