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усвоить — meaning in English

usvoit

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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.

Senses

усвоить 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.
  • internalize (transitive) To make something internal; to incorporate it in oneself.

adopt — full definition

  1. verb To legally take a child into your family as your own.
  2. verb To take a pet or cause under your care, or to start using an idea, method, or practice.

assimilate — full definition

  1. verb To take in and fully understand new information or ideas.
  2. 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.

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