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assimilate
verb assimilated, assimilating
- 1. To become familiar with and understand (facts, information, etc) completely.
- Thesaurus: absorb, take in, take up, soak up, digest, understand, grasp, take in, learn, sense.
2. To become part of, or make (people) part of, a larger group, especially when they are of a different race, culture, etc.
- Thesaurus: adjust, adapt, acclimatize, accustom, conform.
- Said of a plant or animal: to manufacture complex organic compounds.
4. phonetics.
- Said of a sound, usually a consonant: to change due to the influence of an immediately adjacent sound, eg d assimilates to g in broadcast.
- 1. biol.
- Any of the complex organic compounds initially produced by green plants and certain bacteria that manufacture complex molecules from simple molecules obtained from the environment.
