Assume

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  • intransitive verb. To take for granted; suppose.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To take upon oneself (a duty or obligation).
  • intransitive verb. To undertake the duties of (an office).
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To take on (an appearance, role, or form, for example); adopt.
  • intransitive verb. To pretend to have; feign.
  • intransitive verb. To take over without justification; seize.
  • intransitive verb. To clothe oneself in; don.
  • intransitive verb. To take up or receive into heaven.
  • intransitive verb. To make a supposition; suppose or believe.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To take into relation or association; adopt; take in; admit: as, “Enoch and Elias were assumed up into heaven,” Abp. Abbot. See assumption, 5.
  • To take upon one's self; undertake: as, to assume the responsibility of a proceeding; to assume office; to assume an obligation.
  • To take or put on one's self; invest one's self with: as, to assume the garb of a mendicant, or the figure of an animal; to assume a severe aspect; “to assume man's nature,”
  • To apply to one's self; appropriate.
  • To take for granted or without proof; suppose as a fact; postulate: as, to assume a principle in reasoning.
  • To take fictitiously; pretend to possess; take in appearance: as, to assume the garb of humility.
  • To claim.
  • Synonyms To affect, feign, counterfeit.
  • To be arrogant; claim more than is due; presume.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
  • transitive verb. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.
  • transitive verb. To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
  • transitive verb. To receive or adopt.
  • intransitive verb. To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.
  • intransitive verb. To undertake, as by a promise.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
  • verb. To take on a position, duty or form.
  • verb. To adopt an idea or cause.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. occupy or take on
  • verb. take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
  • verb. take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
  • verb. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
  • verb. make a pretence of
  • verb. take up someone's soul into heaven
  • verb. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
  • verb. put clothing on one's body
  • verb. seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
  • Word Usage
    "I can only assume yeah I know *assume* that they have tested enough people and found that assertion passes the smell test even though there is no evidence other than the address on her 1040 for eight yesr."
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    don  undertake  
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    invite  move  receive  take-in  
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    Bloom  Blum  Blume  Doom  Hume  
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