verb (used with object), as·sim·i·lat·ed, as·sim·i·lat·ing.
verb (used without object), as·sim·i·lat·ed, as·sim·i·lat·ing.
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There are no easy solutions to assimilating refugees into a solid culture.
We know a thing only by uniting with it; by assimilating it; by an interpenetration of it and ourselves.Practical Mysticism|Evelyn Underhill
Capacity for assimilating the public taste and reproducing it, is the commonest.Diana of the Crossways, Complete|George Meredith
It is this foreign element that makes our population what it is,—an assimilating, and yet an unassimilated mass.Nature and Culture|Harvey Rice
Historical truth is reached by balancing everything, and not by assimilating that which easily suits.
The assimilating capacity of an industrial organization can be greatly increased by any scheme that awakens an interest.Industrial Progress and Human Economics|James Hartness