Synonyms of the word

assimilate

• v. To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
• v. To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind.
• v. To absorb a group of people into a community.
• v. To compare a thing to something similar.
• v. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
• n. Something that is or has been assimilated.

absorb

• v. (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
• v. (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically…
• v. (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it, as.
• v. (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
• v. (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
• v. (transitive) Assimilate mentally.
• v. (transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
• v. (transitive) To defray the costs.
• v. (transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.

acquire

• v. (transitive) To get.
• v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
• v. (medicine) To contract.
• v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

adapt

• v. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
• v. (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
• v. (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.
• v. (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.
• adj. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

adjust

• v. (transitive) To modify.
• v. (transitive) To improve or rectify.
• v. (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
• v. (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

conform

• v. (intransitive, of persons, often followed by to) To act in accordance with expectations; to behave in…
• v. (intransitive, of things, situations, etc.) To be in accordance with a set of specifications or regulations,…
• v. (transitive) To make similar in form or nature; to make suitable for a purpose; to adapt.

imbibe

• v. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
• v. (figuratively) To take in; absorb.

ingest

• v. To take into the body, as for digestion.

larn

• v. (Northern England) especially (Geordie) To teach or to learn.

learn

• v. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
• v. To attend a course or other educational activity.
• v. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
• v. To be studying.
• v. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
• v. (now only in slang and dialects) To teach.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.