assimilate

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Synonyms: assimulate, assibilate, assimilated, assimilable, dissimilate, assimilator, assimilates, assimilative, reassimilate, assibiliate

Antonyms: assimulate, assibilate, assimilated, assimilable, dissimilate, assimilator, assimilates, assimilative, reassimilate, assibiliate

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Verb

1. To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
   • Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
2. To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
   • The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.
3. To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
   • The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.
4. To liken, compare to something similar.
5. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
6. To become similar.
7. To be incorporated or absorbed into something.
8. To undergo phonetic assimilation.

Adjective

1. Assimilated.
2. Similar, like, the same as.

Noun

1. Something that is or has been assimilated.
2. Something that is like, similar to another.

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