assimilated

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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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