PRESUME


Meaning of PRESUME in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be presumed dead (= used when someone is missing and people think they are certainly dead )

The two boys have not been seen since they fell into the river, and are now presumed dead.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

only

I can only presume that Lucker has failed in the macho stakes.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Many scientists presumed the new damage to the forests to be the result of higher levels of pollution.

The committee presumed that its decisions would be carried out.

The defendant is presumed innocent until proved guilty.

The price includes all your transportation and hotels, I presume ?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As a 19 year-old student, I presume I am one of these.

Bhagat Singh, the presumed killer, eluded arrest and quickly achieved the status of hero.

It presumes that reality is dynamic rather than static, and therefore seeks relationships between ideas, to aim at synthesis.

One presumes his wife Eimear knew that when she married him.

Persons leaving a Communist country were normally presumed to be fleeing persecution.

They say Mind presumed an inquiry would involve the families and those advising them and we were astonished when it did not.

This, she presumed, was life.

Was this the treatment Roman meted out to any female who presumed a little too much, grew a little too possessive?

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