Assimilate

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To consume and incorporate (nutrients) into the body after digestion.
  • intransitive verb. To transform (food) into living tissue by the process of anabolism; metabolize constructively.
  • intransitive verb. To incorporate and absorb into the mind.
  • intransitive verb. To make similar; cause to resemble.
  • intransitive verb. To alter (a sound) by assimilation.
  • intransitive verb. To absorb (immigrants or a culturally distinct group) into the prevailing culture.
  • intransitive verb. To become assimilated.
  • 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,”
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
  • transitive verb. To liken; to compa�e.
  • transitive verb. To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment.
  • intransitive verb. To become similar or like something else.
  • intransitive verb. To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
  • intransitive verb. To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To incorporate nutrients into the body after digestion.
  • verb. To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind.
  • verb. To absorb a group of people into a community.
  • verb. To compare something to another similar one.
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  • verb. make similar
  • verb. take up mentally
  • verb. become similar to one's environment
  • verb. become similar in sound
  • verb. take (gas, light or heat) into a solution