All 8 Uses of
assume
in
Underworld, by DeLillo
- And also because my brother Matt—it was Matt's endless premise, his song of songs, that our old man Jimmy was living somewhere in southern California under the usual assumed name.
assumed = took on or adopted
- We were the ones with assumed names.
- And even those in the audience who were familiar with Lenny's habitual scat, the vocal apparatus with its endless shifts and modulations and assumed identities, the release of underground words and tensions—they felt a small medicinal jolt at the pitch of the decorator's voice.
- I ain't saying assume the fetal position and let them put their cocked revolvers upside your head.
*assume = take or adopt
- He assumed Clyde believed likewise.
*assumed = accepted as true (without proof)
- And there were two women on stools not far from where Jerry was standing, a couple of local biddies you might assume, only they weren't cozy or talky or interested in other people's talk—just ancient and wasted regulars of the art.
assume = accept as true (without proof)
- Nick assumed the position of a prepared body.
assumed = took on or adopted
- A southern dialect word, a corruption, a slur, an invective, from tizzo, he assumed, a firebrand or smoldering coal, and broadened to human dimensions in tizzone d'inferno, scoundrel, villain.
assumed = accepted as true (without proof)
Definitions:
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(1)
(assume as in: I assume it's true) to accept something as true without proof
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(2)
(assume as in: She assumed power) beginning to take power or responsibility
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(3)
(assume as in: She assumed a false identity) to take on (adopt, wear, strike a pose or appearance of) -- often while pretending or disguising
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(4)
(assume as in: assumed into heaven) to take up or receive someone into heaven