assume
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
accept something as true for the purpose of analysis or argument
Legacy lexicon import
Senses
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to take on titles, offices, duties, or responsibilities
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to take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
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to take to be the case or to be true
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to take up someone's soul into heaven
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to make a pretence of
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to occupy or take on
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to seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Variants
- synonym
- adoptarrogatepresumeseizeshamstriketaketake ontake overusurp
- pasttense
- assumed
- presentparticiple
- assuming
- thirdpersonsingular
- assumes
- pastparticiple
- assumed