[ US /əˈsɪməˌɫeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈɪmɪlˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. take up mentally
    he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe
  2. become similar to one's environment
    Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly
  3. make similar
    This country assimilates immigrants very quickly
  4. take (gas, light or heat) into a solution
  5. become similar in sound
    The nasal assimilates to the following consonant
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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.
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