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Assimilates

To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.

📖 Definitions of "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.

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