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assume 
  vb tr 
1 may take a clause as object to take for granted; accept without proof; suppose 
to assume that someone is sane  
2 to take upon oneself; undertake or take on or over (a position, responsibility, etc.) 
to assume office  
3 to pretend to; feign 
he assumed indifference, although the news affected him deeply  
4 to take or put on; adopt 
the problem assumed gigantic proportions  
5 to appropriate or usurp (power, control, etc.); arrogate 
the revolutionaries assumed control of the city  
6  (Christianity) (of God) to take up (the soul of a believer) into heaven 
  (C15: from Latin assumere to take up, from sumere to take up, from sub- + emere to take) 
♦  assumable  adj 
♦  assumer    n 



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