assimilates

verb

1. 1

   To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.

   “Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.”

2. 2

   To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.

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

3. 3

   To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.

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

4. 4

   To compare to something similar.

5. 5

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

6. 6

   To become similar.

7. 7

   To be incorporated or absorbed into something.