assimilate
[ verb uh-sim-uh-leyt; noun uh-sim-uh-lit, -leyt ]
/ verb əˈsɪm əˌleɪt; noun əˈsɪm ə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /
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verb (used with object), as·sim·i·lat·ed, as·sim·i·lat·ing.
verb (used without object), as·sim·i·lat·ed, as·sim·i·lat·ing.
noun
something that is assimilated.
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How to use assimilate in a sentence
We are introduced successively to the Palestinian, the Assimilator, and the Neither-here-nor-there.
His policy is not the policy of Rome the conqueror, but Rome the assimilator.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind|Herbert George WellsIt has been pointed out in these pages that Reynolds was a great assimilator.
Reynolds|S. L. (Samuel Levy) BensusanGoethe was an assimilator and summed up in himself the spirit of a century, the attitude of predecessors and contemporaries.
Laurence Sterne in Germany|Harvey Waterman Thayer
British Dictionary definitions for assimilate
assimilate
/ (əˈsɪmɪˌleɪt) /
verb
(tr) to learn (information, a procedure, etc) and understand it thoroughly
(tr) to absorb (food) and incorporate it into the body tissues
(intr) to become absorbed, incorporated, or learned and understood
(usually foll by into or with) to bring or come into harmony; adjust or become adjustedthe new immigrants assimilated easily
(usually foll by to or with) to become or cause to become similar
(usually foll by to) phonetics to change (a consonant) or (of a consonant) to be changed into another under the influence of one adjacent to it(n) often assimilates to ŋ before (k), as in ``include''
Derived forms of assimilate
Word Origin for assimilate
C15: from Latin assimilāre to make one thing like another, from similis like, similar
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