to treat raw material, food, etc. in order to change it, preserve it, etc.
Example:
- Most of the food we buy is processed in some way.
- Soya bean oil is found in hundreds of processed foods.
- processed cheese/meats
- Many of these foods are made from highly processed ingredients.
- The berries are processed into juice or sauce.
- For many years he grew and processed flax for linen.
Extra examples:
- When food is processed, many of the nutrients are stripped away.
- The plant is then processed for dye.
- The rice is specially processed to simplify cooking biryani at home
- highly processed foods
to deal officially with a document, request, etc.
Example:
- It will take a week for your application to be processed.
to perform a series of operations on data in a computer
Example:
- The image is processed digitally by computer software.
to understand the meaning of something that has happened or been said
Example:
- My brain slowly processed the fact that I was free to leave.
- It was a second later when I fully processed what he had said.