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Definition: Indigestion |
IndigestionNoun1. A disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "indigestion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Indigestion \In`di*ges"tion\, noun. [Latin expression indigestio: compare to the French expression indigestion. See In- not, and Digest.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the western wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: "Plenty well, no pray; big bellyache, heap God.". Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | A distressing stomach trouble that is sometimes temporarily relieved by kicking the cat or whipping the children. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of indigestion, indicates unhealthy and gloomy surroundings. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | Poor digestion. Symptoms include heartburn, nausea, bloating, and gas. Also called dyspepsia. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: IndigestionSynonyms: dyspepsia (n), stomach upset (n), upset stomach (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy; cachexia, atrophy, marasmus; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay; (deterioration); decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Indigestion |
| English words defined with "indigestion": Apepsy, atrabilious ♦ bilious ♦ Cardialgy ♦ Dyspepsy, dyspeptic ♦ hiccough, hiccup ♦ liverish ♦ singultus, Stomach staggers, Summer complaint. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "indigestion": Bismuth Subsalicylate ♦ Cold Pudding settles Love ♦ DELMONICO ♦ EGG ♦ H2-Blockers, HYPTIS VERTICILLATA ♦ ICHTHYOTHERE SCANDENS, ICHTHYOTHERE TERMINALES, INDIGESTION ♦ PIE, Postcholecystectomy Syndrome. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Indigestion" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (indigestion), German (dyspepsia, indigestion). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It would serve you right if you had an acute attack of indigestion. (Charlotte's Web; writing credit: E.B. White; Earl Hamner Jr.) When your heart skips a beat, it isn't love, its indigestion. (Road to Avonlea; writing credit: Heather Conkie; Suzette Couture) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Une indigestion (1902) | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Les Hydropathes. : Premier Traitment.- Libation, Absorbtion et... Indigestion! / Ch. Jacque.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Vous avez une indigestion, Gastro intero 'evacuante! / Ch. Nanteuil.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient, To Regulate The Stomach, The Liver, The Bowels. : To cure Indigestion, Biliousness, Constipation. / Donaldson Brothers, N.Y.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Indigestion. / A. Growquill Esq del. Etched by G Ck.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Minna Antrim | A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. |
Winston Churchill | Eating words has never given me indigestion. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. |
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Health | It may be accompanied by indigestion, nausea, weakness, and sweating. (references) | |
To diagnose indigestion, the doctor first rules out other problems, like ulcers. (references) | ||
Some people have persistent indigestion that is not related to any of these factors. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. Rev. Dr. Mucker (in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman) Cold pie is a detestable American comestible. That's why I'm done -- or undone -- So far from that dear London. (from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Indigestion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.22% of the time. "Indigestion" is used about 129 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.22% | 128 | 28,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 129 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
indigestion | 410 | acid indigestion symptom | 4 |
acid indigestion | 62 | severe indigestion | 3 |
indigestion symptom | 40 | indigestion treatment | 3 |
pregnancy indigestion | 19 | indigestion problem | 3 |
heartburn indigestion | 11 | indigestion relief | 3 |
cause of indigestion | 10 | chest indigestion pain | 3 |
chronic indigestion | 6 | stomach indigestion | 2 |
gas and indigestion | 6 | dog indigestion | 2 |
indigestion remedy | 6 | heartbeats indigestion skipped | 2 |
indigestion cure | 6 | indigestion type | 2 |
during indigestion pregnancy | 5 | indigestion nausea | 2 |
attack heart indigestion | 5 | natural indigestion remedy | 2 |
indigestion and burping | 4 | indigestion in pregnancy | 2 |
home indigestion remedy | 4 | ||
indigestion in pregnancy | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "indigestion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mostretje (dyspepsia), keqtretje, dispepsi (dyspepsia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سوء الهضم (dyspepsia), عسر الهضم (undigested). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стомашно разстройство (looseness), обърканост (blankness, complexity, confusion, distraction, fluster, fog, harassment, involution, maze, muddle, puzzle, puzzlement), лошо храносмилане. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 消化不良. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zažívací potíže, bolení žaludku. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | indigestie (dyspepsia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | indigestio (dyspepsia), misdigesto (dyspepsia), dispepsio (dyspepsia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سوء هاضمه (Dyspepsia), رودل , دیرهضمی , بدگواری (Dyspepsia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | indigestion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verdauungsstörung (dyspepsia), Magenverstimmung (dyspepsia, stomach upset, upset, upset stomach), Indigestion (dyspepsia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαρυστομαχιά, δυσπεψία (concoctio tarda, digestive disturbances, dyspepsia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קלקול קב". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyomorrontás (bilious attack), emésztési zavar (dyspepsia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | salah cerna. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | indigestione (surfeit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 消化不良 (dyspepsia), 不消化 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうかふりょう (dyspepsia), ふしょうか. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lag-ghailley. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | dårlig fordøyelse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | indigestionay indigestão (dyspepsia, surfeit). (various references) indigestie. (various references) несварение. (various references) nevarenje, loše varenje. (various references) indigestión. (various references) dålig matsmältning (dyspepsia). (various references) sindirim güçlüğü (dyspepsia), hazımsızlık (dyspepsia), dispepsi. (various references) нетравлення шлунка. (various references) sự không lĩnh hội. (various references) camdreuliad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "indigestion": indigestions. (additional references) | |
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"Indigestion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Indegestion, indigation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "indigestion" (pronounced i'ndīje"skhun) |
| 8 | -d ī j e" s kh u n | digestion. |
| 6 | -j e" s kh u n | congestion, ingestion, suggestion. |
| 5 | -e" s kh u n | question. |
| 4 | -s kh u n | bastion, combustion, exhaustion. |
| 3 | -kh u n | abstention, circumvention, contravention, fortune, inattention, intention, intervention, kitchen, luncheon, misfortune, Nonintervention, truncheon, urchin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-i-i-n-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: digitonins, indigotins. | |
-2 letters: destining, digestion, digitonin, dignities, ignitions, indigents, indigotin, ingestion. | |
-3 letters: denoting, dingiest, editions, enditing, ginniest, ignition, indigens, indigent, indigoes, inditing, iodising, ionising, sedition. | |
-4 letters: denting, dentins, dieting, dingies, dingoes, dinting, editing, edition, endings, ignited, ignites, indents, indigen, indigos, indites, ingoted, inosite, insigne, intends, intines, intoned, intones, iodines, ionised, nesting, nidgets, noising, seining. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-i-i-n-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: disorienting, indigestions. | |
+3 letters: digitoxigenins, disintegration, disorientating. | |
+4 letters: disintegrations, indigenizations. | |
+5 letters: interdigitations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 64 69 67 65 73 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.. .. --. . ... - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01100111 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n d i g e s t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0064 0069 0067 0065 0073 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380707573718586758180 |
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