assumed
uh soohmd
- v take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
- v take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- v take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
She assumed strange manners - v take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- v occupy or take on
- v seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town - v make a pretence of
She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger - v take up someone's soul into heaven
This is the day when May was assumed into heaven - v put clothing on one's body
The queen assumed the stately robes - s adopted in order to deceive
an assumed name
an assumed cheerfulness
- Reagan assumed change was possible and I thought so too.
- Both girls assumed they would go to college and pursue careers.
- When Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, 50, and his wife Melinda, 41, were looking for ways to give away their prodigious wealth, they assumed that such monumental problems were .