English-Spanish translations for assimilate

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