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assumingverbpresent participle of assume to take to or upon oneselfwe promised to assume responsibility for any damage to the flower beds caused by the volleyball game in the backyard accepting, bearing, shouldering, taking over, undertaking adopting, embracing, taking upadvocating, backing, championing, endorsing(also indorsing), espousing, standing by, supporting, upholdingacceding, acquiescing, agreeing, assenting, consentingreaccepting, reassuming disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, repudiating abjuring, recanting, renouncing, retracting, taking back, unsaying, withdrawingdeclining, refusing, rejecting, spurning, turning downabstaining (from), forbearing, refraining (from)avoiding, bypassing, detouringabandoning, abnegating, forsaking, giving up, relinquishing, spurning, surrenderingbacking down, backing off, backtracking to take as true or as a fact without actual proofeveryone assumed, wrongly, that someone else was bringing dessert hypothecating, hypothesizing, postulating, premising, presuming, presupposing, saying, supposing accepting, believing, crediting, swallowingconcluding, deducing, gathering, inferring, judging, takingconjecturing, figuring, guessing, reckoning(chiefly dialect), surmising, suspecting, suspicioning(chiefly dialect), thinkingconceiving, dreaming, fancying, imagining, perceiving, preconceivingspeculating, theorizingaffirming, alleging, asserting, averring, avouching, avowing, claiming, contending, declaring, insisting, maintaining, professing taking for granted challenging, controverting, disagreeing (with), disbelieving, discounting, discrediting, disputing, distrusting, doubting, mistrusting, questioning, wondering (about)denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, rejecting, repudiatingbelying, confuting, disproving, rebutting, refuting to form an opinion from little or no evidenceas I just assumed it was too late to go out, I didn't think to ask conjecturing, daresaying, guessing, imagining, presuming, speculating, supposing, surmising, suspecting, suspicioning(chiefly dialect) concluding, deducing, gathering, inferringhypothecating, hypothesizing, theorizingbelieving, conceiving, expecting, judging, reckoning(chiefly dialect), taking, thinking demonstrating, documenting, establishing, proving, substantiating, validatingascertaining, determining, finding out, learning to present a false appearance ofshe assumed an air of nonchalance even though she was wildly ecstatic she was going on the date acting, affecting, bluffing, counterfeiting, dissembling, faking, feigning, passing (for), pretending, professing, putting on, shamming, simulating dissimulating, impersonating, letting on, masquerading, playacting, playing, posingforging, imitatingcamouflaging, concealing, disguising, maskingfeintingmalingering making believe to provide with a paying jobassumed as partner by the prestigious law firm employing, engaging, feeing(chiefly Scottish), hiring, laying on(chiefly British), paying, placing, recruiting, retaining, signing (up or on), taking on reemploying(or re-employing), reengaging(or re-engaging), rehiringapprenticing, contracting, jobbing, partnering, subcontractingenlistingadvancing, promoting, upgradingkeeping (on)headhunting, scouting axing, canning, discharging, dismissing, firing, sacking furloughing, laying off, locking out in 1667 |