Definitions for assume

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assume as·sume

Spelling: [uh-soom]

IPA: /əˈsum/

Assume is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in assume (aemssu).

Definitions for assume

verb (used with object)

1. to take for granted or without proof: Synonyms: suppose, presuppose; postulate, posit.
2. to take upon oneself; undertake:
3. to take over the duties or responsibilities of:
4. to take on (a particular character, quality, mode of life, etc.); adopt:
5. to take on; be invested or endowed with:
6. to pretend to have or be; feign:
7. to appropriate or arrogate; seize; usurp:
8. to take upon oneself (the debts or obligations of another).
9. Archaic. to take into relation or association; adopt.

verb (used without object)

1. to take something for granted; presume.

Origin of assume

1400-50; late Middle English (Anglo-French assumer) Latin assūmere to take to, adopt, equivalent to as- as- + sūmere to take up; see

Examples for assume

Contrary to what you may assume about me, I actually enjoy the occasional trip to the mall.

I assume he turned something else into aspirin and black coffee the next morning.

This bantering is most pointed if we assume that Rosaline was dark rather than fair.

Nor should we ever assume that weather alone, however extreme, should be fatal to a commercial flight.

It occurs to me that Mount must assume that Hitchcock has read it--after all, it came from him.

"Go on before, and make a way for us," said the doctor, with an authority he had no right to assume.

What if Remorse should assume the features of an injured friend?

I come before you and assume the Presidency at a moment rich with promise.

Sympathetic persons are apt to assume that every refined emotion must be ennobling.

We can only assume that he was, as you would expect him to be, mortified by his own inability to keep his charges under control.