The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Assimilate \As*sim"i*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assimilated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Assimilating.] [L. assimilatus, p. p. of
assimilare; ad + similare to make like, similis like. See
Similar, Assemble, Assimilate.]
1. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a
resemblance between. --Sir M. Hale.
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To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. --John
Bright.
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Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes
Assimilate all objects. --Cowper.
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2. To liken; to compa?e. [R.]
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3. 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.
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Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate
their nourishment. --Sir I.
Newton.
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His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.
--Merivale.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "assimilated":
Americanized, Anglicized, accented, acculturated, acculturized,
adopted, alveolar, amalgamated, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, articulated, back, barytone, bilabial, blended,
broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, changed, checked, close,
combinative, combinatory, combined, conjoint, conjugate,
conjunctive, connective, consolidated, consonant, consonantal,
continuant, converted, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, eclectic,
flat, front, fused, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy,
high, incorporated, indoctrinated, integrated, intonated, joined,
joint, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light,
lingual, liquid, low, merged, mid, mixed, monophthongal, muted,
narrow, nasal, nasalized, naturalized, occlusive, one, open,
oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, reborn,
redeemed, reformed, regenerated, renewed, retroflex, rounded,
semivowel, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic,
syncretistic, syncretized, synthesized, tense, thick, throaty,
tonal, tonic, transformed, twangy, unaccented, united, unrounded,
unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel,
vowellike, weak, wide