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assimilate
1. v. Assimiler.
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assimilate
1. v. To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
2. v. 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. v. 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. v. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
5. v. (intransitive) To become similar.
6. v. (intransitive) To be incorporated or absorbed into something.
7. n. Something that is or has been assimilated.

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He also encouraged Jews to assimilate.  I know that both would now desperately like to see more of their children and to assimilate them into their current families, which are both more affluent than we are.  My own attempts to do this have deepened my respect for scientific journalists, who have to assimilate quickly, with a looming deadline, topics with which they may be quite unfamiliar.

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