assimilate

assimilate has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• v. t.. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
• v. t.. To liken; to compa/e.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. i.. To become similar or like something else.
• v. i.. To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
• v. i.. To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
• v.. become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly"
• v.. make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly"
• v.. become similar in sound; "The nasal assimilates to the following consonant"
• v.. take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"
• v.. take (gas, light or heat) into a solution