transitive verb assumed, assuming
- to take on or put on (the appearance, form, role, etc. of)
- to seize; usurp: to assume control
- to take upon oneself; undertake: to assume an obligation
- to take for granted; suppose (something) to be a fact
- to pretend to have; feign: to assume an air of innocence
- Archaic
- to take in or receive
- to take into association
Origin:
ME assumen < L assumere, to take up, claim < ad-, to + sumere, to take: see consume