assimilate
verb (used with object)
to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb.
assimilated
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past participleof assimilate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof assimilate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
assimilateverb (used with object)to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb.
Example Sentences
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However, Glynn described them as "naturalised", having become "assimilated into the natural environment" over many years.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The current study shows that those who have assimilated more positive age beliefs often show improvement, Levy said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
Tom, whose family fled Nazi Germany when he was a boy, is a thoroughly assimilated, tennis-obsessed Englishman who brings his own more conciliatory perspective to the discussion as a British Jew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Germans ignored it out of shame; Jews, living precariously in exile, rejected it as too assimilated and bourgeois.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
So they do not realize that while one suffers a diminished sense of private individuality by becoming assimilated into public society, such assimilation makes possible the achievement of public individuality.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
