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assume
[ uh-soom ]
verb (used with object)
- to take for granted or without proof:
to assume that everyone wants peace.
Synonyms: presuppose, posit, postulate, suppose
- to take upon oneself; undertake:
to assume an obligation.
- to take over the duties or responsibilities of:
to assume the office of treasurer.
- to take on (a particular character, quality, mode of life, etc.); adopt:
He assumed the style of an aggressive go-getter.
- to take on; be invested or endowed with:
The situation assumed a threatening character.
- to pretend to have or be; feign:
to assume a humble manner.
to assume a right to oneself; to assume control.
- to take upon oneself (the debts or obligations of another).
- Archaic. to take into relation or association; adopt.
verb (used without object)
- to take something for granted; presume.
assume
/ əˈsjuːm /
verb
- may take a clause as object to take for granted; accept without proof; suppose
to assume that someone is sane
- to take upon oneself; undertake or take on or over (a position, responsibility, etc)
to assume office
- to pretend to; feign
he assumed indifference, although the news affected him deeply
- to take or put on; adopt
the problem assumed gigantic proportions
- to appropriate or usurp (power, control, etc); arrogate
the revolutionaries assumed control of the city
- Christianity (of God) to take up (the soul of a believer) into heaven
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Derived Forms
- asˈsumer, noun
- asˈsumable, adjective
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Other Words From
- as·sumer noun
- over·as·sume verb (used with object) overassumed overassuming
- preas·sume verb (used with object) preassumed preassuming
- reas·sume verb (used with object) reassumed reassuming
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of assume1
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Example Sentences
When our elected representatives assume their respective offices, they take an oath to “protect and defend the Constitution.”
Nor should we ever assume that weather alone, however extreme, should be fatal to a commercial flight.
Campaigns like opechatesgays.com assume that LGBT people are an interest group with only one interest: their own.
It occurs to me that Mount must assume that Hitchcock has read it--after all, it came from him.
Now that I am free, I have Medicaid and doctors no longer assume I am malingering.
Many adults assume that a child can look at a landscape as they look at it, taking in the whole picturesque effect.
It will be found that as a whole they assume a flat position, and are very easily handled.
He was told that a son must not play in his father's presence, nor assume free or easy posture before him.
When people argue in this strain, I immediately assume the offensive.
We may fairly assume the presence here of one or two, if not more, assistants, besides a pupil or improver.
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