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The synonyms of “Assume” are: feign, sham, simulate, don, get into, put on, wear, accept, bear, take over, arrogate, seize, usurp, acquire, adopt, take, take on, strike, take up, presume, take for granted, suppose, take it, take as read, take it as given, presuppose, conjecture, surmise, conclude, come to the conclusion, deduce, infer, draw the inference, reckon, reason, guess, imagine, think, fancy, suspect, expect, believe, be of the opinion, understand, be given to understand, gather, glean, shoulder, undertake, take on oneself, manage, handle, deal with, get to grips with, turn one's hand to, take possession of, take away, appropriate, commandeer, expropriate, confiscate, requisition, hijack, wrest, arrogate to oneself, help oneself to, claim, lay claim to, come to have, fake, counterfeit, affect, impersonate
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “assume” as a verb can have the following definitions:
accept | Make use of or accept for some purpose. People did not accept atonal music at that time. |
acquire | Buy or obtain (an asset or object) for oneself. Children acquire language at an amazing rate. |
adopt | Legally take (another’s child) and bring it up as one’s own. They adopted two children from Nicaragua. |
affect | Have an effect on; make a difference to. This new ruling affects your business. |
appropriate | Take possession of by force, as after an invasion. The accused had appropriated the property. |
arrogate | Demand as being one’s due or property; assert one’s right or title to. They arrogate to themselves the ability to divine the nation s true interests. |
arrogate to oneself | Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one’s right or possession. |
be given to understand | Represent, as of a character on stage. |
be of the opinion | Represent, as of a character on stage. |
bear | Give birth to (a child. A small boat bearing a white flag. |
believe | Follow a credo have a faith be a believer. The deal is believed to be worth around 15 million. |
claim | Ask for legally or make a legal claim to as of debts for example. He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter. |
come to have | Proceed or get along. |
come to the conclusion | Develop into. |
commandeer | Officially take possession or control of (something), especially for military purposes. A nearby house had been commandeered by the army. |
conclude | Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation. They concluded an economic agreement. |
confiscate | Take or seize (someone’s property) with authority. The guards confiscated his camera. |
conjecture | Form an opinion or supposition about (something) on the basis of incomplete information. Many conjectured that the jury could not agree. |
counterfeit | Resemble closely. No pretence could have counterfeited such terror. |
deal with | Take action with respect to (someone or something. |
deduce | Trace the course or derivation of. They deduced that the fish died because of water pollution. |
don | Put clothing on one’s body. The princess donned a long blue dress. |
draw the inference | Represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface. |
expect | Consider obligatory request and expect. They re just friends of his I expect. |
expropriate | Dispossess (someone) of property. The Communist government expropriated the landowners. |
fake | Pretend to feel or have (an emotion, illness, or injury. The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it. |
fancy | Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for. I fancy him to win the tournament. |
feign | Make believe with the intent to deceive. She feigned nervousness. |
gather | Collect or gather. The destroyer gathered speed. |
get into | Give certain properties to something. |
get to grips with | Communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone. |
glean | Collect gradually. The information is gleaned from press cuttings. |
guess | Form a correct conclusion about something by guessing. She guessed the child s age at 14 or 15. |
handle | Handle effectively. Heavy paving slabs can be difficult to handle. |
help oneself to | Improve; change for the better. |
hijack | Seize control of. They hijacked the judicial process. |
imagine | Form a mental image or concept of. I couldn t imagine what she expected to tell them. |
impersonate | Assume or act the character of. It s a very serious offence to impersonate a police officer. |
infer | Guess correctly; solve by guessing. From these facts we can infer that crime has been increasing. |
lay claim to | Lay eggs. |
manage | Be the manager of a sports team or a performer. He managed five or six bands in his career. |
presume | Constitute reasonable evidence for. The argument presumes that only one person can do the work. |
presuppose | Tacitly assume at the beginning of a line of argument or course of action that something is the case. This step presupposes two prior ones. |
put on | Adapt. |
reason | Present reasons and arguments. Humans do not reason entirely from facts. |
reckon | Judge to be probable. I reckon to get away by two thirty. |
requisition | Make a formal request for official services. A stakeholder has requisitioned an extraordinary general meeting. |
seize | Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force take as one s right or possession. Police have seized 726 lb of cocaine. |
sham | Make a pretence of. Was he ill or was he shamming. |
shoulder | Lift onto one s shoulders. He shouldered his way through the seething mass of children. |
simulate | Make a pretence of. It was impossible to force a smile to simulate pleasure. |
strike | Undertake strike action against an employer. Strike a medal. |
suppose | Take for granted or as a given suppose beforehand. I m quite a good actress I suppose. |
surmise | Suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it. He surmised that something must be wrong. |
suspect | Have an idea or impression of the existence, presence, or truth of (something) without certain proof. I suspect he is a fugitive. |
take | Take by force. Take the A43 towards Bicester. |
take as read | Accept or undergo, often unwillingly. |
take away | Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards. |
take for granted | Have with oneself; have on one’s person. |
take it | Accept or undergo, often unwillingly. |
take it as given | Travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route. |
take on | Occupy or take on. |
take on oneself | Carry out. |
take over | Obtain by winning. |
take possession of | Experience or feel or submit to. |
take up | Be a student of a certain subject. |
think | Bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation. Think good thoughts. |
turn one's hand to | Go sour or spoil. |
understand | Be understanding of. I understand how you feel. |
undertake | Accept as a charge. A lorry driver implicitly undertakes that he is reasonably skilled as a driver. |
usurp | Take the place of (someone in a position of power) illegally; supplant. The Church had usurped upon the domain of the state. |
wear | Have in one s aspect wear an expression of one s attitude or personality. They wear a frozen smile on their faces. |
wrest | Take (something, especially power or control) after considerable effort or difficulty. Wrest power from the old government. |
anticipate | Act in advance of; deal with ahead of time. They failed to anticipate a full scale invasion. |
anticipation | The action of anticipating something; expectation or prediction. Her eyes sparkled with anticipation. |
anticipatory | Happening, performed, or felt in anticipation of something. An anticipatory flash of excitement. |
assumption | Arrogance or presumption. He acquired all the company s assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company s debts. |
conjecture | To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds. A matter for conjecture. |
expect | Consider obligatory request and expect. I m expecting a full explanation as to why these files were destroyed. |
expectancy | The state of thinking or hoping that something, especially something good, will happen. An indicator of expectancy in development. |
expectation | Anticipating with confidence of fulfillment. Reality had not lived up to expectations. |
extrapolate | Extend (a graph, curve, or range of values) by inferring unknown values from trends in the known data. It is always dangerous to extrapolate from a sample. |
forecast | Judge to be probable. Rain is forecast for Scotland. |
foresee | Act in advance of; deal with ahead of time. We did not foresee any difficulties. |
guess | Put forward of a guess in spite of possible refutation. She guessed the child s age at 14 or 15. |
guesswork | The process or results of guessing. Answering this question will involve you in a certain amount of guesswork. |
hypothesis | A proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth. A scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory. |
infer | Guess correctly; solve by guessing. From these facts we can infer that crime has been increasing. |
inference | A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. His emphasis on order and health and by inference cleanliness. |
maybe | By chance. No ifs buts or maybes. |
predict | Make a prediction about tell in advance. It is too early to predict a result. |
predictive | Denoting or relating to a system for using data already stored in a computer or mobile phone to generate the letters or words a user is likely to enter next, on the basis of those that have already been entered. Predictive typing allows you to type faster. |
presumably | By reasonable assumption. Presumably he missed the train. |
presume | Make unjustified demands; take liberties. Two of the journalists went missing and are presumed dead. |
presumption | An attitude adopted in law or as a matter of policy towards an action or proposal in the absence of acceptable reasons to the contrary. Underlying presumptions about human nature. |
presuppose | Tacitly assume at the beginning of a line of argument or course of action that something is the case. I presuppose that you have done your work. |
putative | Generally considered or reputed to be. The putative author of the book. |
speculate | To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds. He didn t look as though he had the money to speculate in shares. |
speculation | An investment that is very risky but could yield great profits. This is pure speculation on my part. |
suppose | Expect believe or suppose. I shouldn t have been in the study I m not supposed to go in there. |
supposedly | According to what is generally assumed or believed (often used to indicate that the speaker doubts the truth of the statement. There were rumours of a rift between him and his colleagues supposedly because they were jealous of his relationship with the Duchess. |
supposition | A belief held without proof or certain knowledge; an assumption or hypothesis. They were working on the supposition that his death was murder. |
surmise | A supposition that something may be true, even though there is no evidence to confirm it. He surmised that something must be wrong. |
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