Assimilates

verb

Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.verbTo incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.

"Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue."

2.verbTo incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.

"The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said."

3.verbTo absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.

"The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race."

4.verbTo compare to something similar.

5.verbTo bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

6.verbTo become similar.

7.verbTo be incorporated or absorbed into something.

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