assimilate

Meanings

Verb

• To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
• To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
• To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
• To liken, compare to something similar.
• To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
• To become similar.
• To be incorporated or absorbed into something.

Noun

• Something that is or has been assimilated.

Related

Similar words

• process
• integrate

Origin

• Borrowed from Late Latin assimilātus, variant of Latin assimulātus ("made similar, imitated"), perfect passive participle of assimulō, from ad + simulō. assemble.