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Assimilate

🔄 Synonyms of "Assimilate"

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imbibeverbTo drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
absorbverb(transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
take inverb(transitive) To receive.
ingestverb(transitive) To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.

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dissimilateverb(rare, intransitive) To become dissimilar or unlike.

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absorbverb(transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
ingestverb(transitive) To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
imbibeverbTo drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
take inverb(transitive) To receive.
digestverb(transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
digestivenounOf, relating to, or functioning in digestion.
absorptivenounHaving power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
swallowverb(transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
graspverbTo understand.
conflateverbTo combine or mix together.
partitioningnounThe act or result of dividing into partitions; an arrangement of partitions.
attractverb(transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
internalizeverb(transitive) To make something internal; to incorporate it in oneself.
integrateverb(transitive) To include as a constituent part or functionality.
confuseverb(transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
incorporateverb(transitive) To include (something) as a part.
captureverb(transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
equateverb(transitive) To consider equal or equivalent (to or with).
equalizeverb(transitive) To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
likenverb(transitive) Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare.

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