ASSUME

transitive verb (~d; assuming) see: consume Date: 15th century 1. to take up or in ; receive , to take into partnership, employment, or use, 2. to take to or upon oneself ; undertake , put on , don , to place oneself in , seize , usurp , to pretend to have or be ; feign , to take as granted or true ; suppose , to take over (the debts of another) as one's own, assumability noun assumable adjective assumably adverb Synonyms: see: ~