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assume is a verb meaning "take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof". It carries 9 recorded senses.
take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
“I assume his train was late”
take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
“When will the new President assume office?”
take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
“I'll accept the charges”
“She agreed to bear the responsibility”
seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
“He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town”
“he usurped my rights”
“She seized control of the throne after her husband died”
take up someone's soul into heaven
“This is the day when Mary was assumed into heaven”
Christianity
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for assume come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.