assimilate
verb (used with object)
to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb.
was assimilating
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past progressiveof assimilate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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If being accepted and belonging was assimilating, I was having none of that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
His brother Eli worried that Kargbo was assimilating the worst part of American culture.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2015
For a time the law was assimilating what had been taken up during the period of growth and the task of the jurist was one of ordering, harmonizing and systematizing rather than of creating.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
At the same time, she was astonished at the avidity with which she was assimilating these hitherto unsuspected mysteries.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
He was assimilating something from this valley of gleams and shadows.
From Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
