English-Finnish translations for assimilate

• assimiloida
• assimiloitua
• imeytyä
  Punaviini imeytyi paitaan.
• omaksua
• rinnastaa
• sisäistää
• sulauttaa
  On mahdotonta karkottaa tai sulauttaa useita satoja tuhansia ihmisiä, ja siksi heille on annettava heidän EU:n takaamat oikeutensa. It is impossible either to deport or to assimilate several hundred thousand people, and so they must be given their EU rights.
  Monet valtiot noudattavat yhä vanhaa Ranskan mallia ja yrittävät sulauttaa ne vähemmistöt, joiden kieli ja kulttuuri poikkeavat maan omasta kielestä ja kulttuurista. Many states are still following the old-fashioned French model and trying to assimilate those who have a language and culture different to that of the state.

Definition of assimilate

• To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion
• To incorporate or absorb into the mind
• To absorb into a community or culture
• To compare to something similar.
• To become similar
• Something that is or has been assimilated

Examples

• Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
• The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.
• The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.

Related words

• assimilation
• assimilative
• assimilatory
• assimilationist
• unassimilated
• assimilationism
• disassimilation
• antiassimilationist
• unassimilatable