усваивать — meaning in English
usvaivat
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English meaning
- adopt verb To legally take a child into your family as your own.
- assimilate verb To take in and fully understand new information or ideas.
- digest verb To break food down in the stomach and intestines so the body can absorb its nutrients.
- grasp verb To grip something firmly, typically with the hand.
Senses
усваивать is used for these senses in English:
- adopt To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- assimilate (transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
- digest (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
- digest (transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
- internalize (transitive) To make something internal; to incorporate it in oneself.
adopt — full definition
- verb To legally take a child into your family as your own.
- verb To take a pet or cause under your care, or to start using an idea, method, or practice.
assimilate — full definition
- verb To take in and fully understand new information or ideas.
- verb To become part of a group or culture by adopting its customs and ways, or to absorb someone into a group in this way.