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    as·sim·i·late
    [əˈsiməˌlāt]
    verb
    assimilate (verb) · assimilates (third person present) · assimilated (past tense) · assimilated (past participle) · assimilating (present participle)
    1. take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully:
      "Marie tried to assimilate the week's events"
      • absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture:
        "pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream with alarming speed"
      • become absorbed and integrated into a society or culture:
        "the older generation had more trouble assimilating"
      • (of the body or any biological system) absorb and digest (food or nutrients):
        "the sugars in the fruit are readily assimilated by the body"
    2. cause (something) to resemble; liken:
      "philosophers had assimilated thought to perception"
      • come to resemble:
        "the Churches assimilated to a certain cultural norm"
      • phonetics
        make (a sound) more like another in the same or next word.
    Origin
    late Middle English: from Latin assimilat- ‘absorbed, incorporated’, from the verb assimilare, from ad- ‘to’ + similis ‘like’.
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    verb
    1. take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully:
      understand
      comprehend
      work out
      make sense of
      grasp
      catch
      follow
      perceive
      make out
      penetrate
      divine
      take in
      absorb
      get to the bottom of
      interpret
      decipher
      decode
      disentangle
      untangle
      unravel
      make head or tail of
      get a fix on
      crack
      dig
      get
      get the picture
      get the message
      twig
      savvy
      cognize
      fathom out
      search out
      ferret out
      puzzle out
      piece together
      take on board
      get/catch the drift of
      tumble to
      see what's what
      suss (out)
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