Another example, in a slightly less obvious fashion, is assimilate. When used as a technical word to describe a certain process of language change, assimilate refers to the habit that some sounds have …

ASSIMILATE definition: 1. to become part of a group, country, society, etc., or to make someone or something become part…. Learn more.

ASSIMILATE definition: to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb. See examples of assimilate used in a sentence.

[transitive] assimilate something to fully understand an idea or some information so that you are able to use it yourself. The committee will need time to assimilate this report. Some people can only …

If you assimilate new ideas, customs, or techniques, you learn them or adopt them. My mind could only assimilate one impossibility at a time.

assimilate (əˈsɪmɪˌleɪt) vb 1. (tr) to learn (information, a procedure, etc) and understand it thoroughly

[no object] (of a person from a different background) to adjust (oneself) to the dominant cultural group or national culture: The immigrants assimilated rapidly.