Synonym: adopt, believe, presume, put on, suppose, suspect, think, understand. Antonym: conclude. Similar words: assumption, resume, consume, consumer, assure, issue, tissue, dress up. Meaning: [ə'sjuːm] 
v. 1. take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof 2. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities 3. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect 4. take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person 5. occupy or take on 6. seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession 7. make a pretence of 8. take up someone's soul into heaven 9. put clothing on one's body.
v. 1. take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof 2. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities 3. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect 4. take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person 5. occupy or take on 6. seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession 7. make a pretence of 8. take up someone's soul into heaven 9. put clothing on one's body. 
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151. These normally private functions can assume unusually large proportions if illness limits a person's capacity for self care.
152. Concern continues about the inability of supervisors to fully assume their roles in making the team system work.
153. I haven't heard from her, but I assume she's still going.
154. It has become customary to assume that the subject is that which acts and the object is that which is acted upon.
155. The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.
156. I think it is reasonable to assume that the arrow for computers is the same as that for humans.
157. If they fail will they assume responsibility for the failure or blame some one else?
158. Earlier in the conversation MacArthur discounted suggestions that Walt Butterworth would assume responsibility for dealing with a treaty.
159. There was, however, one measure, adopted in 1908, the Labour Exchange Act, that came to assume importance.
160. If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action. Douglas Adams 
161. But they can not assume their final adult form and breed unless they reach land.
162. Decision-process models also assume that consumer learning and experience will build up and affect future purchase situations.
163. I haven't seen the other squads: I assume Macca, Speed, and Dorigo are all in there.
164. The rocks began to assume a mantle of translucent ice that dripped in grey icicles from overhangs.
165. We must assume that the density of information packing in spoken language is appropriate for the listener to process comfortably.
166. Let us assume for the sake of argument that Inevitable is correct.
167. It seems fair to assume that she will attract the attention of a goodly number of our countrymen.
168. On their upper-range models at least, Mazda assume that you'd like those things.
169. In future economic efficiency was likely to assume as much importance as the technical side.
170. If the farm has hill-grazing rights, these may assume an overriding importance in relation to other factors.
171. Davis and Moore have tended to assume that the most highly rewarded positions are indeed the most important.
172. It was still unclear last night, however, which party would assume control of the House.
173. But you know already that I am not the sort to assume responsibility for my inconsistencies.
174. Yet we tend to assume it is equal in all people.
175. Inevitably this affects their attitude to these people so that they tend to assume that all their visits are time-wasting.
176. But both sides tend to assume that men keep things this way because they benefit so much.
177. It would, however,(www.Sentencedict.com) be totally wrong to assume that all apparitions are angels on assignment.
178. We assume that contractions were totally absent or failed to occlude the intestinal lumen.
179. It would seem reasonable to assume that measures aimed at treating calculi in these patients may reduce the frequency of infection.
180. A neighbourhood patrol can thus assume the proportions of an armed convoy.