Verb

(assimilat)

To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.

Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.

* Isaac Newton

Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment.

To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind.

The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.

* Merivale

His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.

To absorb a group of people into a community.

The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.

To compare a thing to something similar.

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

* John Bright

to assimilate our law to the law of Scotland

* Cowper

Fast falls a fleecy shower; the downy flakes / Assimilate all objects.

Verb

To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.

To be mingled or mixed.

* Irving

There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.

* To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent - , 1884

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(obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

(Spenser)