meaning of assimilate
1. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
2. To liken; to compa/e.
3. To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
4. To become similar or like something else.
5. To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
6. To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
7. become similar to ones environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate
">quickly"
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