assimilate
/əˈsɪm.ɪ.leɪt/ verb C2- To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion. · Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
- To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind. · The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.
- To 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.
- To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
- To become similar.
- To be incorporated or absorbed into something.
- To undergo phonetic assimilation.
He/she/it assimilates · Past assimilated · Past participle assimilated · -ing form assimilating
Verb forms
- Base form
- assimilate
- He/she/it
- assimilates
- Past
- assimilated
- Past participle
- assimilated
- -ing form
- assimilating
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About two o’clock the following day a calash, drawn by a pair of magnificent English horses, stopped at the door of Monte Cristo and a person, dressed in a blue coat, with buttons of a similar color, a white waistcoat, over which was displayed a massive gold chain, brown trousers, and a quantity of black hair descending so low over his eyebrows as to leave it doubtful whether it were not artificial so little did its jetty glossiness assimilate with the deep wrinkles stamped on his features—a person, in a word, who, although evidently past fifty, desired to be taken for not more than forty, bent forwards from the carriage door, on the panels of which were emblazoned the armorial bearings of a baron, and directed his groom to inquire at the porter’s lodge whether the Count of Monte Cristo resided there, and if he were within.
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