All 12 Uses
assume
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Never Let Me Go
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- I assumed she was rehearsing a lesson or maybe one of her assembly talks, and I was about to hurry past before she spotted me, but just then she turned and looked straight at me.†
p. 45.2
- It was hardly surprising then that we assumed the woods would be central in the plot to abduct Miss Geraldine.†
p. 51.5 *
- I'D ASSUMED RUTH WAS SOMETHING of a chess expert and that she'd be able to teach me the game.†
p. 52.8
- I suppose I must have assumed those old problems had been left behind with our early teen years, and that only the big issues that now loomed so large could possibly preoccupy any of us.†
p. 94.9
- Some modern books, by people like Edna O'Brien and Margaret Drabble, had some sex in them, but it wasn't ever very clear what was happening because the authors always assumed you'd already had a lot of sex before and there was no need to go into details.†
p. 99.3
- The way she'd nudged me and lowered her voice had made it all too obvious she too was expressing some assumption, probably doing the rounds, about me being the "natural successor."†
p. 101.3
- I suppose I must have assumed he was raring to go, that I had my work cut out just to hold him off.†
p. 102.5
- WE HADN'T MENTIONED THE POSSIBLE" at all since arriving in the town, and I'd assumed when we sat down we'd finally discuss the matter properly.†
p. 149.8
- It's daft to assume you'll have the same sort of life as your model.†
p. 165.9
- I'd been assuming, once we were back, we'd be taking little opportunities, whenever we were alone, to exchange more thoughts on his theory about the Gallery.†
p. 185.8
- And it started to dawn on me, I suppose, that a lot of things I'd always assumed I'd plenty of time to get round to doing, I might now have to act on pretty soon or else let them go forever.†
p. 213.7
- Some people assumed afterwards I'd fixed it for him, but that wasn't the case; it was just luck, and anyway, it wasn't that great a room.†
p. 237.4
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
- (5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)