assume
Word of the Day Monday, 20th October 2008
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verb, to take for granted; accept without proof; suppose: to assume that someone is sane
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assume
- 1) verb, to take for granted; accept without proof; suppose: to assume that someone is sane
- 2) verb, to take upon oneself; undertake or take on or over (a position, responsibility, etc): to assume office
- 3) verb, to pretend to; feign: he assumed indifference, although the news affected him deeply
- 4) verb, to take or put on; adopt: the problem assumed gigantic proportions
- 5) verb, to appropriate or usurp (power, control, etc); arrogate: the revolutionaries assumed control of the city
- 6) verb, Christianity (of God) to take up (the soul of a believer) into heaven
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008
© HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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Synonyms
imitate, believe, take on, wrest, undertake, take, fancy, take over, mimic, expect, begin, usurp, set about, appropriate, infer, don, sham, accept, pre-empt, simulate, acquire, conjecture, counterfeit, suppose, manage, commandeer, affect, seise, postulate, put on, feign, imagine, bear, requisition, adopt, presume, surmise, highjack, take up, impersonate, suspect, handle, expropriate, think, presuppose, confiscate, embrace, guess (informal chiefly U.S. Canad.), shoulder, arrogate
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