assimilate

IPA: ʌsˈɪmʌɫeɪt

(transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
(transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
(transitive) To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
(transitive, rare, used with "to" or "with") To liken, compare to something similar.
(transitive) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
(intransitive) To become similar.
(intransitive) To be incorporated or absorbed into something.

Examples of "assimilate" in Sentences

The desire to assimilate is very powerful, it is a variation on the need to conform to society.
If people don't want to assimilate, that is their right, as long as they obey the laws of the country they live in.
Your underline assertion, that Mexican immigrants don't want to 'assimilate' is highly questionable, however, depending on how you define 'assimilate'.
"assimilate" -- which has meant different things at different times, but has always seemed to require that Indians sell their land for next to nothing.
So to eat without giving nature time to assimilate is to rob her, first of health, then life; so to read without reflecting is to cram the intellect and paralyze the mind.
So to eat without giving nature time to assimilate is to rob her, first of health, then of life; so to read without reflecting is to cram the intellect and paralyze the mind.
The researchers found that Latino immigrants 'ability to "assimilate" into the broader American social and political culture depends in large part on the way they perceive and project their images in relation to whites.
Among many other important parts of the history of native peoples in California, the show presented the different boarding schools that native children were taken to in order to "assimilate" into white American culture.