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The Meaning of assume
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(v. t.) To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
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(v. t.) To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.
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(v. t.) To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
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(v. t.) To receive or adopt.
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(v. i.) To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.
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(v. i.) To undertake, as by a promise.
Synonyms
adopt
,
take for granted
,
arrogate
,
get into
,
accept
,
strike
,
take on
,
acquire
,
put on
,
presume
,
make bold
,
usurp
,
dare
,
take
,
sham
,
take over
,
seize
,
don
,
take up
,
bear
,
wear
,
feign
,
simulate
,
take in
,
embrace
,
absorb
,
buy up
,
espouse
,
undertake
,
sweep up
,
borrow
,
meet
,
admit
,
relieve
,
play
,
encounter
,
repeat
,
follow
,
dramatise
,
tackle
,
dramatize
,
buy out
,
require
,
read
,
occupy
,
rent
,
withdraw
,
lead
,
ingest
,
develop
,
carry
,
deal
,
have
,
subscribe to
,
hold
,
choose
,
learn
,
fill
,
larn
,
necessitate
,
consume
,
demand
,
consider
,
need
,
study
,
win
,
pick out
,
gain
,
contract
,
grow
,
film
,
remove
,
lease
,
train
,
ask
,
bring
,
use up
,
select
,
engage
,
drive
,
make
,
claim
,
get
,
get hold of
,
exact
,
take away
,
pack
,
call for
,
submit
,
convey
,
take aim
,
shoot
,
aim
,
direct
,
charter
,
contain
,
subscribe
,
produce
,
involve
,
look at
,
postulate
,
evolve
,
hire
,
guide
,
conduct
,
digest
,
swallow
,
abide
,
comport
,
tolerate
,
have a bun in the oven
,
support
,
live with
,
behave
,
endure
,
put up
,
stick out
,
expect
,
deport
,
pay
,
go for
,
stomach
,
birth
,
deliver
,
acquit
,
brook
,
yield
,
turn out
,
suffer
,
stand
,
gestate
,
give birth
,
consent
,
hit
,
start
,
resume
,
strickle
,
discover
,
fall upon
,
sorb
,
chance upon
,
come across
,
chance on
,
coin
,
suck
,
draw
,
expunge
,
seize on
,
walk out
,
fasten on
,
suck in
,
come upon
,
come to
,
collide with
,
excise
,
hook on
,
soak up
,
scoop
,
lift out
,
light upon
,
move
,
imbibe
,
sop up
,
impinge on
,
run into
,
happen upon
,
mint
,
fall
,
shine
,
scoop up
,
scratch
,
suck up
,
impress
,
attain
,
scoop out
,
affect
,
latch on
,
attach
,
sequester
,
capture
,
impound
,
lay claim
,
prehend
,
assign
,
confiscate
,
clutch
,
grab
,
appropriate
,
conquer
,
pretend
,
dissemble
,
imitate
,
model
,
copy
,
wear thin
,
dupe
,
put one over
,
fag
,
befool
,
slang
,
hold out
,
tire
,
wear out
,
put one across
,
move into
,
have on
,
come in
,
go into
,
break
,
fall apart
,
jade
,
apply
,
tire out
,
wear upon
,
turn in
,
bust
,
get in
,
wear off
,
gull
,
outwear
,
cod
,
fool
,
enter
,
wear down
,
weary
,
fatigue
,
mount
,
go in
,
tangle with
,
fag out
,
anticipate
Rhymes
abloom
,
backroom
,
ballroom
,
barroom
,
bathroom
,
bedroom
,
bloom
,
blum
,
blume
,
boardroom
,
boom
,
bridegroom
,
broom
,
broome
,
brume
,
classroom
,
cloakroom
,
consume
,
costume
,
courtroom
,
croom
,
crume
,
darkroom
,
doom
,
elbowroom
,
entomb
,
exhume
,
flume
,
fume
,
gloom
,
glume
,
groom
,
groome
,
grume
,
handloom
,
headroom
,
heirloom
,
hume
,
kaboom
,
khartoum
,
kume
,
legroom
,
legume
,
loom
,
lunchroom
,
mailroom
,
maktoum
,
mcbroom
,
neume
,
perfume
,
playroom
,
plume
,
presume
,
reassume
,
reaume
,
restroom
,
resume
,
rheaume
,
rheum
,
room
,
schoolroom
,
showroom
,
spoom
,
spume
,
stockroom
,
storeroom
,
sunroom
,
tomb
,
toolroom
,
vroom
,
washroom
,
whom
,
womb
,
workroom
,
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