English-German translations for assimilate

• angleichen
• anpassen
  Dies bedeutet zugleich jedoch nicht, dass diese Kinder durch das Erlernen der Sprache des Gastlandes und das Anpassen an die örtlichen Gegebenheiten ihr eigenes kulturelles Erbe aufgeben müssen. At the same time, however, learning the language of the host country and becoming locally assimilated must not mean abandoning their own cultural heritage.
• assimilieren
  Es ist unmöglich, mehrere hunderttausend Menschen zu deportieren oder zu assimilieren, daher müssen sie ihre EU-Rechte erhalten. It is impossible either to deport or to assimilate several hundred thousand people, and so they must be given their EU rights.
• verarbeiten

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