Dictionary Entry
assimilate
assimilate is a 10-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
- 2transitive verb
To liken; to compa/e.
- 3transitive verb
To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
- 4intransitive verb
To become similar or like something else.
- 5intransitive verb
To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
- 6intransitive verb
To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
- 7verb
become similar to one's environment
"Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly"
- 8verb
make similar
"This country assimilates immigrants very quickly"
- 9verb
become similar in sound
"The nasal assimilates to the following consonant"
- 10verb
take up mentally
"he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"
- 11verb
take (gas, light or heat) into a solution
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