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Meanings of assimilate in English

Portuguese
assimilar
Catalan
assimilar
Spanish
empapar

Take up mentally.

        assimilar
        Portuguese
        assimilar
        Catalan
        assimilar-se
        Spanish
        asimilar

        Become similar to one's environment.

              assimilar

              Take (gas, light or heat) into a solution.

                    Usage of assimilate in English
                    1
                    Trying her best to assimilate, to come to terms with her exile.
                    Edge of Infinity
                    2
                    Hold fast to your roots Don't try to assimilate into their culture.
                    The South African
                    3
                    They're not expected to achieve as children, so they begin to assimilate.
                    Ebony
                    4
                    This is no story about a foreigner struggling to assimilate in American.
                    Reuters
                    5
                    Then give the stomach food that the organs can digest and assimilate.
                    The Royal Road to Health; Or, the Secret of Health Without Drugs
                    6
                    She wished she had some time alone to assimilate the cold facts.
                    Accidentally the sheikh's wife
                    7
                    His art is a refusal to forget, to assimilate, to move on.
                    The Guardian
                    8
                    The other aim was to assimilate aboriginal peoples and crush their cultures.
                    Reuters
                    9
                    It is, however, difficult to assimilate the German girls to American customs.
                    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 / Devoted...
                    10
                    We must not only attach information to ourselves, we must assimilate it.
                    The Warriors
                    11
                    How far will material improvements help to uplift and assimilate the newcomers?
                    Aliens or Americans?
                    12
                    He felt the Watcher's anxiety as she tried to assimilate it all.
                    The outcast
                    13
                    She shut the door to her car, trying to assimilate the scene.
                    The cold room
                    14
                    The words struck him, and the ship started to assimilate the new information.
                    Stars rain down
                    15
                    That these facts are hard to assimilate for some political correspondents is clear.
                    The Irish Times
                    16
                    I just need to...assimilate...what's going on, and then I'll be able to talk.
                    The art of racing in the rain
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                    Translations for assimilate
                    Portuguese
                    assimilar
                    Assimilate through the time
                    Assimilate across language varieties
                    United Kingdom
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Common