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assimilate

Definition for assimilate

verb as in absorb mentally

Strong matches

digest, ingest, learn, sense

Weak matches

osmose, soak up, take in, take up

verb as in become adjusted; adjust

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Example Sentences

These rancho libertarians did what liberals said Latinos would do and conservatives long insisted was impossible: They assimilated.

Vance also drew a distinction between the Christian far-right and what he called “real religious tyranny” of Muslim immigrants who “don’t necessarily assimilate into Western values.”

From Salon

As generations of Portuguese people settled into the Central Valley, they also assimilated into their American surrounds.

She told the BBC at the time that the Voice was about "assimilating us into the colonial constitution to make us nice, neat little Indigenous Australians that will continue to be oppressed by the coloniser".

From BBC

If they appear too assimilated, they may be more expected to understand certain Korean social codes that they find alien, such as workplace expectations, gender roles or seniority-based formalities.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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