Meaning

(transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
2. (transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
3. (transitive) To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
4. (transitive, rare, used with "to" or "with") To liken, compare to something similar.
5. (transitive) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
6. (intransitive) To become similar.
7. (intransitive) To be incorporated or absorbed into something.
8. (as a participle) Assimilated.

Example Sentences

Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.

Hence also it may be, that the Parts of Animals and Vegetables preserve their several Forms, and assimilate their Nourishment; [...]

In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; [...]

The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.

His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.

A good modern work on this subject is needed, preferably by someone who understands both the Bible and human sexuality, but Sex and the Bible isn't it. I'm not sure what went wrong. Larue has read the literature, but seems not to have assimilated it.

The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.

The use of an animal to kill, wound or threaten is assimilated to the use of a weapon.

Word Forms

• assimilates
• assimilating
• assimilated
• more assimilate
• most assimilate

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When Should You Use Assimilate?

Use assimilate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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