1. assimilate - Noun
2. assimilate - Verb
To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
To liken; to compa/e.
To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
To become similar or like something else.
To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism. Bertrand Russell
Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt. Charles Fort
Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire, Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right. Jacques Barzun
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more. Ernest Istook
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. Franz Kafka
To know means to record in one's memory but to understand means to blend with the thing and to assimilate it oneself. Traditional Proverb