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

1. transitive verb. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
2. transitive verb. To liken; to compa/e.
3. transitive 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.
4. intransitive verb. To become similar or like something else.
5. intransitive verb. To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
6. intransitive verb. To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
7. verb. become similar to one's environment

   "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly"

8. verb. make similar

   "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly"

9. verb. become similar in sound

   "The nasal assimilates to the following consonant"

10. verb. take up mentally

    "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"

    Synonyms: absorb, ingest

11. verb. take (gas, light or heat) into a solution

    Synonyms: imbibe

Synonyms

absorb, ingest, imbibe

Common word forms

assimilated, assimilates, assimilating

Words from these letters

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