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Assimilate
əˈsɪmɪleɪt
- take in and understand fully (information or ideas)
"Marie tried to assimilate the week's events"
understand comprehend work out fathom out make sense of grasp catch follow perceive make out penetrate divine search out ferret out puzzle out take in assimilate absorb get to the bottom of- absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture
"pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream with alarming speed"
- become absorbed and integrated into a society or culture
"the older generation had more trouble assimilating"
- (of the body or any biological system) absorb and digest (food or nutrients)
"the sugars in the fruit are readily assimilated by the body"
- regard as similar; liken
"philosophers had assimilated thought to perception"
- become similar
"the Churches assimilated to a certain cultural norm"
- make (a sound) more like another in the same or next word
"the ‘v’ in ‘fivepence’ may be assimilated to a voiceless ‘f’ (because of the ‘p’)"