Definition of assume

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Assume (v. i.) To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.

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Cheese :: Cheese (n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
Renunciation :: Renunciation (n.) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right..
Recline :: Recline (v. i.) To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch..
Orientate :: Orientate (v. t.) To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward..
Seemer :: Seemer (n.) One who seems; one who carries or assumes an appearance or semblance.
Mock :: Mock (a.) Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham..
Role :: Role (n.) A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of philanthropist..
Given :: Given (v.) Granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise..
Posture :: Posture (v. i.) To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose..
Postulated :: Postulated (a.) Assumed without proof; as, a postulated inference..
Sobriquet :: Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
Diageotropism :: Diageotropism (n.) The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth.
Form :: Form (n.) Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of..
Posture :: Posture (v. i.) Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint..
Assume :: Assume (v. i.) To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.
Undertake :: Undertake (v. i.) To take upon one's self, or assume, any business, duty, or province..
Self-assumed :: Self-assumed (a.) Assumed by one's own act, or without authority..
Father :: Father (v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.)..
Pretension :: Pretension (n.) A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship..
Assumpt :: Assumpt (n.) That which is assumed; an assumption.
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