assimilate /ə-simˈi-lāt/

1. To make similar or like (with to or with)
2. To convert into a substance similar to itself, as the body does to food
3. To take fully into the mind, experience effects of (eg knowledge)
4. To receive and accept fully within a group, absorb
5. To modify (a speech sound), making it more like a neighbouring sound in a word or sentence (phonetics)

1. To become like (with to)
2. To be incorporated or absorbed (into)

assimˈilable adjective

assimilāˈtion noun

assimilāˈtionist noun

A person who advocates a policy of assimilation, esp of racial groups (also adjective)

assimˈilātive or assimilātory adjective

Having the power or tendency to assimilate

assimˈilātor noun

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