Assimilate

To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

To liken; to compa/e.

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.

To become similar or like something else.

To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.

To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.

take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"