MEANING
1. To absorb something and make it part of an existing body or system.
2. To become integrated into a social group or culture, often by adopting its practices.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- assimilate information
- assimilate nutrients
On the page
She needed time to assimilate the information in the report.
The damaged intestine could no longer assimilate nutrients efficiently.
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Word forms
- Base
- assimilate
- Past tense
- assimilated
- Past participle
- assimilated
- Present participle
- assimilating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- assimilate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are assimilating
- Present perfect
- have/has assimilated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been assimilating
- Past
- assimilated
- Past continuous
- was/were assimilating
- Past perfect
- had assimilated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been assimilating
- Future
- will assimilate
- Future continuous
- will be assimilating
- Future perfect
- will have assimilated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been assimilating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: assimilate; assimilates; assimilated; assimilated; assimilating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: assimilates.
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