become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly" become similar in sound; "The nasal assimialates to the following consonant" take (gas, light or heat) into a solution
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
{f} incorporate, take in, absorb; adopt the cultural characteristics of another group