Assume

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To take upon oneself: assume responsibility; assume another's debts.
  • v. To undertake the duties of (an office): assumed the presidency.
  • v. To take on; adopt: "The god assumes a human form” ( John Ruskin).
  • v. To put on; don: The queen assumed a velvet robe.
  • v. To affect the appearance or possession of; feign.
  • v. To take for granted; suppose: assumed that prices would rise. See Synonyms at presume.
  • v. To take over without justification; seize: assume control.
  • v. To take up or receive into heaven.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
  • v. To take on a position, duty or form.
  • v. To adopt an idea or cause.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
  • v. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.
  • v. To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
  • v. To receive or adopt.
  • verb-intransitive. To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.
  • verb-intransitive. To undertake, as by a promise.
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. occupy or take on
  • v. take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
  • v. take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
  • v. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
  • v. make a pretence of
  • v. take up someone's soul into heaven
  • v. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
  • v. put clothing on one's body
  • v. seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
  • Verb Form
    assumed    assumes    assuming   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    move    invite    take-in    receive   
    Cross Reference
    undertake    don   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    usurp    appropriate    arrogate    take    presume    venture    suppose   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bloom    Blum    Blume    Doom    Hume    Khartoum    abloom    bloom    boom    broom   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts