periodical - a publication that appears at fixed intervals

compendium, collection - a publication containing a variety of works

digest - become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours"

process, treat - subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill"

stomach - bear to eat; "He cannot stomach raw fish"

predigest - digest (food) beforehand

apprehend, comprehend, get the picture, savvy, grasp, compass, dig - get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

live with, swallow, accept - tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncracies"

hold still for, stand for - tolerate or bear; "I won't stand for this kind of behavior!"

bear up - endure cheerfully; "She bore up under the enormous strain"

take lying down - suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively; "I won't take this insult lying down"

take a joke - listen to a joke at one's one expense; "Can't you take a joke?"

undergo, submit, take - accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut"

sit out - endure to the end

pay - bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action; "You'll pay for this!"; "She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly"; "You'll pay for this opinion later"

countenance, permit, allow, let - consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"

suffer - endure (emotional pain); "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers"

change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"

digest - convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products"

systematise, systematize, systemise, systemize - arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge"

digest - soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

disintegrate - break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died"

abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, contract, reduce, cut - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

capsule, capsulise, capsulize, encapsulate - put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize the news"

telescope - make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"

decompose, break down, break up - separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

digest - soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture