Indigestion is pain from food the stomach will not settle. Suffer indigestion, indigestion tablets, bad indigestion.
It is worth knowing that pain in the chest thought to be indigestion is sometimes a heart attack, especially in women, and persistent symptoms are worth a doctor's opinion. The word is in- plus digestion, meaning not digesting.
1nounindigestionPain from food the stomach will not settle.
“Eating too quickly always gives me indigestion.”
indigestion is a discomfort.
Latin indigestio is in-, not, plus digestio, from digerere, to distribute or digest.
Latin
indigestio
Old French
indigestion
Middle English
indigestioun
English, today
indigestion
From Middle English indigestioun, from Old French indigestion, from Latin indigestio, by surface analysis, in- + digestion.
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