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Assimilate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. Physiology To consume and incorporate (nutrients) into the body after digestion.

v. Physiology To transform (food) into living tissue by the process of anabolism; metabolize constructively.

v. To incorporate and absorb into the mind: assimilate knowledge.

v. To make similar; cause to resemble.

v. Linguistics To alter (a sound) by assimilation.

v. To absorb (immigrants or a culturally distinct group) into the prevailing culture.

verb-intransitive. To become assimilated.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To incorporate nutrients into the body after digestion.

v. To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind.

v. To absorb a group of people into a community.

v. To compare something to another similar one.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

v. To liken; to compa�e.

v. To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment.

verb-intransitive. To become similar or like something else.

verb-intransitive. To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.

verb-intransitive. To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make alike; cause to resemble.

In philology, to render accordant, or less discordant, in sound; bring to or toward agreement in mode of utterance: said of alphabetic sounds as affected by other neighboring sounds, generally (but not always) in the same word. See assimilation, .

To compare; liken; class.

To convert into a substance suitable for absorption by an animal or vegetable system; absorb and incorporate into the system; incorporate with organic tissues: as, to assimilate food.

To bring into conformity; adapt.

To conform to; make one's own; adopt.

To become similar; become like something or somebody else; harmonize.

To be taken into and incorporated with another body; be converted into the substance of another body, as food by digestion.

To perform the act of converting anything, as food, into the substance of that which converts it: as, “birds assimilate … less than beasts,”

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make similar

v. take up mentally

v. become similar to one's environment

v. become similar in sound

v. take (gas, light or heat) into a solution

Word Usage

"Your underline assertion, that Mexican immigrants don't want to 'assimilate' is highly questionable, however, depending on how you define 'assimilate'."

Verb Form

assimilated assimilates assimilating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change modify alter absorb

Cross Reference

conform liken

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

liken compa�e

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

immolate