All 11 Uses of
assume
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- Though Pete earned grades little better than Louie's failing ones, his principal assumed that he was a straight-A student.
p. 8.4assumed = accepted as true (without really knowing)
- He scrubbed the kitchen floor to surprise his mother, but she assumed that Pete had done it.
p. 12.2
- Cunningham tried to join the navy, but recruiters, seeing his grotesquely scarred legs, assumed that he was too crippled to serve.
p. 44.9
- The Zero pilot, surely seeing the top turret smashed and the waist windows vacant, had probably assumed that the gunners were all dead.
p. 100.6
- He knew his back had been badly scraped as he had escaped the wreckage, and he assumed this was the source of his pain.
p. 129.1
- The navy assumed command of the rescue effort.
p. 132.0 *assumed = took on (power or responsibility)
- Sylvia, who, like the rest of the family, assumed that Louie had gone down in the ocean, told her mother not to worry.
p. 139.0assumed = accepted as true (without really knowing)
- The men around Louie froze; the man approaching, he assumed, must be an officer.
p. 191.1
- China might be welcoming, but in Japan, it would be foolish to assume that they'd find friendly civilians.
p. 225.9 *assume = accept as true
- Fitzgerald forked forward on his crutches and assumed the duties of senior POW.
p. 277.2assumed = took on (power or responsibility)
- Once, when a group of reporters shuffled in to interview Louie, they crowded around Pete, assuming that of the two men, this haggard one had to be the POW.
p. 329.5assuming = accepting as true (without really knowing)
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