assimilate
(verb)
verb
1. take up mentally
Similar word(s): absorb, ingest
Definition categories: cognition, acquire, larn, learn
2. become similar to one's environment
- Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly
Definition categories: change, adapt, adjust, conform
3. make similar
- This country assimilates immigrants very quickly
Definition categories: change, alter, modify
4. take (gas, light or heat) into a solution
Similar word(s): imbibe
Definition categories: contact, absorb
5. become similar in sound
- The nasal assimilates to the following consonant
Definition categories: change
Sentences with assimilate as a verb:
- Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
- The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.
- The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.