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US
/əˈsɪməˌɫeɪt/
]
[ UK /ɐsˈɪmɪlˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈɪmɪlˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
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take up mentally
he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe -
become similar to one's environment
Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly -
make similar
This country assimilates immigrants very quickly - take (gas, light or heat) into a solution
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become similar in sound
The nasal assimilates to the following consonant
How To Use assimilate In A Sentence
- For instance, many people who can't digest cow-milk-based products can happily assimilate stuff crafted from goat's milk (which is lower in lactose).
- We are overloaded with new experiences already, and cannot assimilate any more.
- Their output of data does not slow computation and is available in easily assimilated graphical form.
- Fairweather painted mainly in earth colours used by the artists of South-East Asia and the Pacific and he was one of the first artists to assimilate aboriginal art into his own work.
- During that period, Catholic schools have steadily become assimilated to the non-denominational schools in terms of curriculum, teaching methods, assessment and examinations.
- Fifty years after the Brown decision, blacks remain unassimilated. Think Progress » Ann Coulter to MoveOn: “How About Helping Out?”
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- The long-noted irony is that turn-of-the-century exponents of Zionism like Nordau and Herzl were thoroughly assimilated Jews. Bloodlust
- A Los Angeles artist who gave that city's art establishment a bursting sense of pride for having nurtured such an obstreperous talent, he earned his celebrity status in part by retaining the obsessions and wounds of a smart Catholic working-class kid from the suburbs of Detroit who had never entirely assimilated to his sun-splashed California home. How Will the Future Judge Him?
- Slowly these different nations were assimilated into one society with a broadly common identification.