assimilate
verb
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to become similar to one's environment“Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly.”
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to make similar“This country assimilates immigrants very quickly.”
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to become similar in sound“The nasal assimilates to the following consonant.”
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to integrate a fact or skill into one's working knowledge“I assimilated the cooking lessons quickly.”take inabsorbingest
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to take into a solution, especially gas, light, or heat“The chemist assimilated carbon dioxide into the glucose solution.”imbibe