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• v  take up mentally
• v  become similar to one's environment
• v  make similar
• v  take (gas, light or heat) into a solution
• v  become similar in sound
• s  capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution

• One of the major reasons for America's great success as the world's first "universal nation," for its astonishing and unmatched capacity for assimilating immigrants, has been that .
• The country is now getting better at assimilating people with physical disabilities like deafness into mainstream society.
• Cisco's powerful stock--$100 invested in 1990 is now worth $34,000-- lets it buy companies with such regularity that an entire Cisco division is devoted to assimilating acquisitions.

• absorb
• assimilate
• ingest
• take in
• imbibe
• assimilative
• assimilatory

• dissimilate

News & Articles

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• Bears' Cutler trying to master new scheme, personnel
  LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Learning a new offense is old hat for quarterback Jay Cutler, who's in the process of assimilating his fourth different scheme in his five years with the Bears.
  June 11, 2013 - The SportsXchange via Yahoo! Sports

Quotes

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• President Bush in New York Times
  This bill provides an historic opportunity to uphold America's tradition of welcoming and assimilating immigrants and honoring our heritage as a nation built on the rule of law,Mr. Bush said. "We have an obligation to solve problems that...
• Robert Boyle in Bloomberg
  The ease of assimilating up to eight aircraft into our existing 777 fleet, rather than having a small number of A330s, swung the balance in Boeing's favor,the airlines Commercial Director Robert Boyle said.
• Mike Keenan in SportingNews.com
  It's a challenging job and I've enjoyed it,Keenan said. "Even though we had a very hard and difficult beginning in terms of working with the group and assimilating the group, I still wanted to come to the rink badly every day. I think the...