Assume

Definition: Assume

Assume

Verb

1. Take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late".

2. Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?".

3. Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables".

4. Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility".

5. Occupy or take on, as of a position or posture; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose".

6. Take control of; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died".

7. Make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep".

8. In Christianity: take up someone's soul into heaven; "This is the day when May was assumed into heaven".

9. Put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "He put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately robes"; "He got into his jeans".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "assume" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Assume \As*sume"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Assumed; Assuming.]. (references)

Synonyms: Assume

Belief

Verb: believe, credit; give faith to, give credit to, credence to; see, realize; assume, receive; set down for, take for; have it, take it; consider, esteem, presume.

Dueness

Demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for; revendicate, reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon; challenge; take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate, make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case.

Falsehood

Dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.

Insolence

Verb: be insolent; Adjective: bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear; (affirm); rap out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell.

Supposition

Verb: suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine.

Taking

Appropriate, expropriate, impropriate; assume, possess oneself of; take possession of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to; make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of.

Crosswords: Assume

French (assumes).

I tell any girl I'm going out with to assume that all plans are soft until she receives confirmation 30 minutes beforehand (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

I don't exactly know what I am required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me. But could we assume that I said all that (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

I assume I need no introduction (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

I don't care! All I know is we didn't build it, and that's reason enough to assume the worst and blow it to kingdom come (The Iron Giant; writing credit: Brad Bird)

I'm afraid we'll have to assume that there's a good chance this simple bastard has murdered them (Alien³; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett)

Non-smoking area: If we see you smoking, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Raising Kids Who Can: Use Good Judgement Assume Responsibility Communicate Effectively Respect Self & Others Cooperate Develop Self Esteem & Enjoy li (reference)

• Guerre D'Indochine Racontee Par Ceux Qui L'Ont Vecue, 1945-1954: Un Devoir de Memoire Assume Ensemble (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Assume Nothing (reference)

• Assume Nothing [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Assume Power Focus (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Like clouds, ice bergs can assume fantastic shapes. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

If you assume Aids won't affect you, then you should still assume the Earth is flat. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The remodeled 1905 Wright machine, altered to allow the operator to assume a sitting position and to provide a seat for a passenger, on the launching track at Kill Devil Hills. This is apparently the only photograph of this machine taken by the Wright bro. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And will any one say, he had no right to those acorns or apples, he thus appropriated, because he had not the consent of all mankind to make them his? Was it a robbery thus to assume to himself what belonged to all in common? If such a consent as that was necessary, man had starved, notwithstanding the plenty God had given him. (Second Treatise of Government)

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (reference)

But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. (reference)

The proportion and nature of the financial obligations of Germany and Prussia which the Czecho-Slovak State will have to assume on account of the Silesian territory placed under its sovereignty will be determined in accordance with Article 254 of Part IX (Financial Clauses) of the present Treaty. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I tried hard to assume a critical tone

Old Europe profited by it to assume a new form

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

If you don't, the doctor will assume that you understood everything that was said. (references)

These structures cause the red blood cells to become stiff and to assume a sickle shape. (references)

However, no XXY male should automatically assume he is infertile without further testing. (references)

Business

Experts assume that investments will not increase dramatically. (references)

This is likely to change as Palestinians assume complete control over customs procedures. (references)

In other words, I assume that the structure of the variance in the industry's financials remains stable. (references)

Children

Pakistan

At the age of 5 or 6, many female children assume responsibility for younger siblings. (references)

Sierra Leone

Locating the families of released child combatants often was difficult, and some did not want to assume responsibility for their children, some of whom were mentally and emotionally incapable of rejoining their families. (references)

Civil Liberties

Turkey

Coreligionists from outside the country have been permitted to assume leadership positions. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

Consequently, they assume the risk of sales to third parties. (references)

France

In certain emergency situations, the president may assume full powers. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

They are destined to assume increasing importance in the Ivoirian economy. (references)

Human Rights

Cuba

Military tribunals assume jurisdiction for certain counterrevolutionary cases and are governed by a special law. (references)

Gambia

Observers assume that the Government monitors citizens possibly engaged in activities that it deems objectionable. (references)

Burma

There continued to be credible reports that prisoners were forced to squat or assume stressful, uncomfortable, or painful positions for lengthy periods. (references)

Political Economy

France

He is also empowered to dissolve the National Assembly and, in certain emergency situations, may assume full power. (references)

Nepal

The Royal Nepal Army, which traditionally is loyal to the King, is beginning to assume a domestic-security role in responding to the Maoist insurgency. (references)

Brunei

The 1959 Constitution provided for the first delegation of political power by the late Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin to an appointed council of state, but in 1962 he invoked an article of the Constitution that allowed him to assume emergency powers for 2 years. (references)

Political Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

On August 23, the BiH Parliament adopted the country's first permanent election law, allowing the Government to assume responsibility for conducting elections. (references)

Croatia

However, in 2000 the Government failed to ensure that many Croatian Serbs, who fled in 1995 and who wished to assume the responsibilities of Croatian citizenship, could document their Croatian citizenship in order to vote and ultimately to return. (references)

Afghanistan

Finally, the Bonn Agreement proposed an international security force for the country until the Afghan authorities are prepared to assume responsibility and called on the international community to assist in the formation of a national army and police force. (references)

Trade

Bulgaria

In most instances, Bulgarian companies assume the full financial burden in purchasing goods. (references)

Haiti

These banks can offer longer-term loans and assume risks, which commercial banks would have to decline. (references)

Egypt

They shall be authorized to assume inspection and certification functions without referral to any higher authority. (references)

Travel

Russia

Do not assume that you can blend in on the street. (references)

Vietnam

American businesspeople typically assume that "win-win" deals are common and relatively easy to achieve. (references)

Japan

One should not assume that because meetings and correspondence are carried out in English that Western social and business norms apply. (references)

Women

Mali

However, when no preference is specified in the marriage certificate, judges assume that the marriage is polygynous. (references)

Worker Rights

Liechtenstein

The law does not prohibit trafficking in persons; NGO's assume that, as in neighboring countries, trafficking in women occurs, but there were no specific reports of trafficking cases during the year. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

Since 1993 the Government has agreed to transfer the NII fees collected from Palestinian workers to the Palestinian Authority, which is to assume responsibility for all the pensions and social benefits of Palestinians working in Israel. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "assume": assume a character ♦ assume a definite shape ♦ assume a foreign accent ♦ assume a form ♦ assume a humble attitude ♦ assume a look of ♦ assume a name ♦ assume a new phase ♦ assume an arrogant air ♦ assume an obligation ♦ assume command ♦ assume control ♦ assume responsibility ♦ assume supposition ♦ assume the appearance ♦ assume the appearance of ♦ assume the command ♦ assume the conclusion ♦ assume the functions of ♦ assume the reins of ♦ assume the responsibility ♦ let's assume ♦ one can assume that ♦ To assume the calotte. Additional references.

Beginning with "assume": assume-surely.

Ending with "assume": re-assume.

Albanian

supozoj (calculate, conjecture, expect, guess, hypothesize, imagine, make, make advances to, presume, presuppose, rate, reckon for, suppose), pretendoj (allege, claim, pretend, profess), pranoj si të vërtetë, marr (accede, acquire, bring, catch, claim, collect, contract, draw, get, have, land, make, obtain, occupy, pick up, possess, realize, receive, score, take, take in, take out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قدر (afford, amount, appraise, appreciate, assess, be able to, be capable of, believe, can, consider, cost, count, deal, degree, esteem, estimate, evaluate, guess, lot, magnitude, manage to, measure, number, predestination, predestine, predetermine, presume, prize, proportion, quantity, rate, size, suppose, think, treasure, value, volume), ‏تولى القيام, ‏تولى (conduct, undertake), ‏تظاهر (affect, counterfeit, demonstrate, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, feint, make believe, march, pose, posture, pretence, pretend, put on, seem, sham, show, simulate, simulation), ‏إفترض (imagine, postulate, presume, reckon, suppose), ‏إغتصب (assault, commandeer, convert, exact, extort, force, rape, wring), ‏إتخذ (arrange, take on), ‏إعتبر (account, adjudge, consider, count, deem, externalize, figure, hold the view, look at, make, number, ponder, rate, reckon, see, set, treat), ‏أخذ على عاتقه (incur, take to one's heels, undertake). (various references)

Bulgarian 

встъпвам в, предполагам (believe, conjecture, divine, expect, guess, imagine, implicate, imply, postulate, presume, presuppose, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, take a notion, think, think for, ween), приемам (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, buy, concede, cotton, embrace, enrol, enroll, entertain, grant, induct, meet, postulate, premise, purchase, receive, recognize, see, stomach, take up, uphold, yield), приписвам си, държа се дръзко, добивам (acquire, extract, fetch, get, mine, obtain, start, win), допускам (accept, admit, allow, bear, concede, permit, suppose, tolerate). (various references)

Chinese 

設想 (imagine, tentative plan), 承擔 (undertake), 假设 (Assumed, Assuming, hypothesize, Postulate, Postulated, Postulating, suppose, Supposing). (various references)

Czech

přijmout (accept, adopt, embrace, receive, see, take up), převzít (take, take over, take up, undertake), předpokládat (imagine, involve, postulate, presume, presuppose, suppose, surmise, trust, visualize), osvojit si (adopt, embrace), domnívat se (conjecture, expect, feel, guess, hold, judge, opine, presume, suppose, think). (various references)

Danish

ret,der geografisk mest hensigtsmæssigt kan træffe en afgørelse i tvistemålet (the State's court which is most appropriate to assume jurisdiction), mutabilitet (mutability, the susceptibility of a characteristic to assume different qualitative values), indflydelsen af sigma-fasens optraeden paa nogle legeringers opfoersel leder til den antagelse, at en ordningsreaktion gaar forud for sigma-fasens dannelse (the effect of sigma phase formation on the behaviour of somealloys induces to assume that an order-disorder transformation takes place before the sigma phase forms), for at forklare dannelsen af fejl paa atomar stoerrelse kunne man antage, at grupper af delvist ordnede atomer - i halvflydende tilstand - slaar sig ned paa fasegraensen (agglomerate into the interface, in a semi-liquid state, it seems easier to assume that groups of partly ordered atoms, to explain the formation of defects on the atomic scale), Europa maa forberede sig paa at udoeve det ansvar,som...goer det til en pligt og samtidig en noedvendighed for det at paatage sig i verden (Europe must prepare itself to exercise the responsibilities which to assume in the world is both its duty and a necessity), EU-initiativ for økonomisk støtte til partnerskabslande i Centraleuropa,indtil de når et niveau,hvor de selv vil være i stand til at varetage forpligtelser som medlemmer af Den Europæiske Union (European Union initiative providing grant finance to support its partner countries in central Europe to the stage where they are ready to assume the obligations of European Union membership, Phare), EF-initiativ for økonomisk støtte til partnerskabslande i Centraleuropa, indtil de når et niveau, hvor de selv vil være i stand til at varetage forpligtelser som medlemmer af Den Europæiske Union (European Union initiative providing grant finance to support its partner countries in Central Europe to the stage where they are ready to assume the obligations of European Union membership, PHARE). (various references)

Dutch

rechter die territoriaal gezien het meest in aanmerking komt om van een geschil kennis te nemen (the State's court which is most appropriate to assume jurisdiction), om het ontstaan van defecten op atomaire schaal te verklaren,zou men kunnen aannemen dat in de half-vloeibare toestand groepen van gedeeltelijk geordende atomen op het grensvlak worden geconcentreerd (agglomerate into the interface, in a semi-liquid state, it seems easier to assume that groups of partly ordered atoms, to explain the formation of defects on the atomic scale), mutability (mutability, the susceptibility of a characteristic to assume different qualitative values), Initiatief van de Europese Unie voor financiële steun aan de partnerlanden in Centraal-Europa tot deze landen in staat zijn de verplichtingen van het lidmaatschap op zich te nemen (European Union initiative providing grant finance to support its partner countries in central Europe to the stage where they are ready to assume the obligations of European Union membership, Phare), de invloed die de vorming van een sigma-fase heeft op het gedrag van sommige legeringen leidt tot de veronderstelling dat een orde-wanorde omzetting optreedt voordat de sigma-fase wordt gevormd (the effect of sigma phase formation on the behaviour of somealloys induces to assume that an order-disorder transformation takes place before the sigma phase forms). (various references)

Farsi 

فرض کردن (Adjudge, Aim, Count, Deem, Hypothesize, Imagine, Posit, Presume, Put, Repute, Suppose), پنداشتن (Coneive, Count, Deem, Imagine, Suppose, Take), وانمودکردن (Affect, Dissemble, Fake, Look, Pretend, Represent, Seem, Sham, Simulate), تقلیدکردن (Imitate, Mimic, Pattern, Simulate), تقبل کردن (Undertake), تظاهرکردن (Sham), انگاشتن (Imagine, Suppose), بعهده گرفتن (Tackle, Undertake), بخودگرفتن , بخودبستن (Arrogate, Pretend, Sham, Simulate). (various references)

Finnish

otaksua (conjecture, suppose, surmise, take for granted), olettaa (guess, presume, suppose, surmise), edellyttää (postulate, presume, presuppose, take ... for granted). (various references)

French

assumer. (various references)

German

unterstellen (insinuate, presume, put under the control, subordinate, suggest, suppose, to impute). (various references)

Greek 

υποθέτω (guess, hypothesize, posit, presume, suppose, surmise). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשער (approximate, conjecture, suppose, surmise). (various references)

Hungarian

magára vállal (to assume, to take over, to take upon oneself), feltételez (conjecture, connote, hypothesize, presume, presuppose, put, suppose, surmise, to conjecture, to presume, to put, to suppose, to surmise). (various references)

Indonesian

mengandaikan, mengambil (take, take over), menduga (consectue, fathom, presume, take depth bearings, understand), memangku (administer, manage, run). (various references)

Italian

assumere (accede, employ, engage, gather, hire, recruit, sign on, sign up, take, take on, undertake), assùmere (accept, suppose, to assume, to suppose), arrogarsi (arrogate, assertiveness), supporre (believe, expect, guess, hypothesise, hypothesize, imagine, judge, mean, opine, postulate, presume, reckon, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, to assume, to suspect), ritenere (account, believe, calculate, consider, consider oneself, count, deem, detain, feel, hold, hold back, keep, refrain, retain, withhold), presupporre (premise, presuppose, suppose), presumere (presume, think), prendere (be taken, buy, captivate, capture, catch, charge, earn, employ, engage, fetch, gather, get, grapple, grasp, grip, have, lay, lay hold of, pick up, seize, subsume, take, take along, to take), mi incarico (adopt, take over, taking over), fingere (act, affect, counterfeit, fake, feign, play, pretend, sham, simulate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

取り澄ます (to assume a composed look, to look unconcerned), 勿体ぶる (to assume importance, to put on airs), 勿体振る (to assume importance, to put on airs), 任じる (to appoint, to assume, to nominate, to pose as), 任ずる (to appoint, to assume, to nominate, to pose as), 女に化ける (to assume the shape of a woman, to change into a woman), 姓が変わる (to assume a new surname), 学者振る (to assume the air of a scholar, to be pedantic), 役に就く (to assume office, to be appointed to a post), 覇を唱える (to assume the leadership, to dominate, to reign supreme), 決め込む (to assume, to pretend, to take for granted), 採る (to adopt, to assume, to pick), 予期 (assume will happen, expectation, forecast), お高く留まる (to assume an air of importance, to put on airs), 称える (to assume the name of, to extol, to give praise), 見得を切る (to assume a posture, to make a defiantgesture, to pose), 見識張る (to assume an air of importance, to stand on one's dignity), でんぐり返る (as, assuming ..., by way of, concerning, even if ..., fish, for, funny you should mention that, if, if we assume ...., if we make ..., if we take ...., in the capacity of, in the role of, palpitation, promoted pawn, regularJouetsu-line shinkansen, such as, there is something called ..., there is something like ..., throbbing, to flutter, to palpitate, to throb, to turn a somersault, to turn head over heels, to turn over, where ... are concerned). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

やくにつく (to assume office, to be appointed to a post), とりすます (to assume a composed look, to look unconcerned), となえる (to assume the name of, to call upon, to chant, to recite), とすると (if we assume ...., if we make ..., if we take ....), はをとなえる (to assume the leadership, to dominate, to reign supreme), みえをきる (to assume a posture, to make a defiantgesture, to pose), けんしきばる (to assume an air of importance, to stand on one's dignity), とる (to adopt, to assume, to attend, to capture, to catch, to choose, to command, to earn, to harvest, to make, to pick, to pick up, to take), もったいぶる (to assume importance, to put on airs), おたかくとまる (to assume an air of importance, to put on airs), せいがかわる (to assume a new surname), にんじる (to appoint, to assume, to nominate, to pose as), にんずる (to appoint, to assume, to nominate, to pose as), きめこむ (to assume, to pretend, to take for granted), がくしゃぶる (to assume the air of a scholar, to be pedantic), おんなにばける (to assume the shape of a woman, to change into a woman), よき (assume will happen, expectation, forecast). (various references)

Korean 

추측하십시요. (various references)

Manx

goaill er hene (take upon), cur er hene. (various references)

Norwegian

anta (expect, figure). (various references)

Pig Latin

assumeay.(various references)

Portuguese

assumir (accept, admit, affect, put on, take on), admitir (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, avow, concede, confess, grant, lead off, let in, receive, take in), aceitar (accept, adhere, admit, adopt, have, hug, receive, subscribe, take, take in, take on, undertake), supor (conjecture, consider, dream, expect, fancy, guess, imagine, make out, presume, see, suppose, surmise, think, ween), simular (affect, camouflage, counterfeit, feign, feint, make believe, palter, play-act, pretend, purport, put on, sham, simulate), presumir (avoid, conceit, conjecture, evade, presume, suppose), fingir (attitudinize, counterfeit, dissemble, double, feign, feint, imitate, make believe, palter, play-act, pose, pretend, put on, sham, simulate). (various references)

Romanian

asuma (shoulder), afecta (affect, afflict, alter, appropriate, concern, disorder, feign, grieve, pretend, sham, simulate, touch, trouble), adopta (adopt, affiliate, choose, embrace, espouse, follow, legitimate, receive, take), admite (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, allow of, appoint, approve, avow, Brook, concede, confess, contain, enter, grant, receive, suffer, take for granted, tolerate, vouchsafe), accepta (abide by, accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, adopt, agree, approve, assent, carry down, embrace, grant, hold, honor, honour, postulate, protect, receive, take, take in, take on), a-şi atribui (arrogate), a-şi asuma (go under), simula (act, affect, dissemble, feign, imitate, make, make believe, malinger, play off, pretend, sham, simulate), presupune (calculate, conjecture, expect, fancy oneself, feel, imagine, imply, infer, presume, suppose, surmise, suspect), prelua (take), lua asupra sã (undertake), lua (acquire, assume a name, book, bring, catch, clasp, clear away, confiscate, conquer, contact, contract, draw, extract, finger, form, get, have, hire, interpret, jerk off, keep off, lay hands on, lay hold of, load, Mount, nim, pick, pick up, pocket, pouch, receive, snatch, start, take), crede (account, accredit, believe, consider, credit, deem, expect, fancy, figure, guess, imagine, put credit in, reckon, seeing is believing, suppose, think), cãpãta (acquire, coax, come by, come in for, come into, contract, derive, earn, find, get, make, obtain, pick up, purchase, receive, take on), însuşi (assimilate, himself, oneself). (various references)

Russian 

принимать (accept, accepted, adopt, embrace, incorporate, pass, receive, receive a visit, take in, take on, take over, take up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prisvojiti (appropriate, arrogate, catch hold of, convert, preempt, usurp), preuzeti na sebe, pretpostaviti (connote, hypothesize, presuppose, suppose, surmise, suspect, trow). (various references)

Spanish

asumir (absorb, assimilate, guess, photograph, presume, put on, receive, suppose, surmise, take, take on, take over), arrogarse (arrogate to), afectar (affect, attack, freak out, hit, impact, influence, put on, take, touch, warp, work), adoptar (adopt, catch, embrace, espouse, go in for), usurpar (assertiveness, encroach, encroach on, infringe on, inroad, usurp), tomar a (cup, imbed, tote, walk off), suponer que (conjecture, fancy, take), servirse de (use), presumir (conjecture, fancy, presume, show off, suppose, suspect, swank, to assume, to suspect), manifestarse (rally), emprender (adopt, attack, enter on, go about, go around, go at, launch, light, set about, set out, set upon, start, tackle, take on, take over, take up, taking over, undertake), darse (dedicate, do, exchange, get, lend, take to), dar por (furnish, hit, reach). (various references)

Swedish

förutsätta (postulate, presume, presuppose, suppose). (various references)

Turkish

almak (accept, accomplish, achieve, acquire, admit, attain, borrow, buy, capture, collect, come in, conquer, divest smb. of, draw, enter on, enter upon, enucleate, excise, extract, fetch, gain, garner, get, govern, have, help oneself to, hold, induct, lay hold of, let in, obtain, occupy, pick up, pull off, purchase, put on, receive, seat, seize, sweep off, take, take from, take in, take on, take over, take up, to buy, withdraw, wreak), addetmek (consider, count, esteem, rate), taslamak (affect, dissimulate, pose, posture, pretend to, put it on), takınmak (put on, strike, wear), saymak (account, calculate, class, consider, count, count down, count in, count off, count up, deem, enumerate, honor, honour, number, number off, number to, rank, rate, reckon, reckon as, reckon for, regard, regard as, repute, respect, suppose, tally, think, treat as), sanmak (conjecture, expect, fancy, flatter oneself, guess, imagine, presume, put down, repute, suppose, surmise, take, take for, think), hükmetmek (adjudge, award, be in the ascendant, be in the ascendent, bestride, command, decide on, dominate, domineer, govern, make an award, overrule, reckon, rule, rule over, sway), farzetmek (call, deem, fancy, imagine, opine, posit, presume, reckon as, reckon for, repute, say, suppose, theorize), üstlenmek (accept, be stuck with, bear, stand, support, take on, take over, take upon oneself, undertake, volunteer), üstüne almak (shoulder). (various references)

Turkmen 

зenlemek (plan, suppose), зaklamak (suppose). (various references)

Ukrainian

узурпувати (usurp), удавати (affect, counterfeit, let on, make believe, profess), вважати (account, allot, allow, believe, calculate, conceive, consider, count, deem, opine, posit, rate, repute, set down, suspect, think), вживати (apply, employ), набирати (dial), бундючитися, брати на себе (go, shoulder, undertake), присвоювати, приймати в товариство, приймати (accept, adopt, embrace, initiate, receive, take in, take on, take over, tidy). (various references)

Welsh

tybio (imagine, suppose, think), honni (allege, assert, pretend, profess), cymryd arno (affect, pretend). (various references)

assumere, sum, sumam, sumamus, sumas, sumat, sume, sumebant, sumenda, sumendi, sumens, sument, sumentes, sumere, sumerem, sumeret, sumes, sumesque, sumet, sumetis, sumetisque, sumetque, sumetur, sumit, sumite, sumo, sumpserim, sumpserint, sumpsero, sumpserunt, sumpsimus, sumpsisset, sumpsisti, sumpsit, sumpsitque, sumpta, sumptis, sumptu, sumptum, sumptumque, sumptus, sumunt, vindico, vindico (vindicatum). (various references)

poser. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "assume": assumed, assumer, assumers, assumes. (additional references)

Words ending with "assume": coassume, reassume. (additional references)

Words containing "assume": coassumed, coassumes, reassumed, reassumes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Assume" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anselme, ansome, Asama, Asema, Asiema, asme, Asom, Asoma, asome, asone, asque, Assamaka, Assane, assem, Asseman, assemb, assini, asson, assuge, assuie, assum, assump, assuse, astuma, Asue, asum, asume, asuse, Atsumi, awsume, Hassuna, Issmfe, Kasoma, Kassum, Kasuma, Kazuma, masjumi, Masseme, Matsumi, Ohsumi, Osumi, Qassem, Sasoma. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: amuses.

-1 letter: amuse, masse, mesas, muses, seams.

-2 letters: amus, emus, maes, mass, mesa, mess, muse, muss, same, seam, seas, sues, sums, uses.

-3 letters: amu, ass, eau, ems, emu, ess, mae, mas, mus, sae, sau, sea, sue, sum, use.

-4 letters: ae, am, as, em, es, ma, me, mu, um, us.

+1 letter: amusers, assumed, assumer, assumes, masques, masseur, medusas, mutases, unseams, wamuses.

+2 letters: ambushes, animuses, assumers, caesiums, campuses, coassume, iambuses, marquess, masquers, masseurs, masseuse, measures, meatuses, medusans, messuage, misusage, reassume, sambukes, shamuses, squamose, summates, sunbeams, surnames, wammuses, wampuses.

+3 letters: albumoses, almshouse, amauroses, ambushers, aneurisms, aneurysms, assumable, autecisms, autosomes, coassumed, coassumes, fumarases, grampuses, humanises, humanness, madhouses, marquises, masseuses, maybushes, measurers, mesopause, messuages, misgauges, misusages, misvalues, muscadels, muscadets, muscatels, musicales, mustaches, outshames, quamashes, reassumed, reassumes, rhamnuses, seamounts, simulates, squeamish, staumrels, stumpages, subframes, subsample, summaries, summarise, surnamers, unmaskers.