assimilating

verb
  1. 1

    To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.

    โ€œFood is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.โ€

  2. 2

    To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.

    โ€œThe teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.โ€

  3. 3

    To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.

    โ€œThe aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.โ€

  4. 4

    To compare to something similar.

  5. 5

    To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

  6. 6

    To become similar.

  7. 7

    To be incorporated or absorbed into something.

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