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as⋅sumed

[uh-soomd]

–adjective

1.	adopted in order to deceive; fictitious; pretended; feigned: an assumed name; an assumed air of humility.

2.	taken for granted; supposed: His assumed innocence proved untrue.

usurped.

Origin:
1615–25; assume + -ed ²

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Language Translation for : Assumed

Spanish:

presunto; falso,

German:

vorgetäuscht; angenommen,

Japanese:

みせかけの

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as⋅sume

[uh-soom]

verb (used with object), -sumed, -sum⋅ing.

1.	to take for granted or without proof; suppose; postulate; posit: to assume that everyone wants peace.

2.	to take upon oneself; undertake: to assume an obligation.

3.	to take over the duties or responsibilities of: to assume the office of treasurer.

4.	to take on (a particular character, quality, mode of life, etc.); adopt: He assumed the style of an aggressive go-getter.

5.	to take on; be invested or endowed with: The situation assumed a threatening character.

6.	to pretend to have or be; feign: to assume a humble manner.

7.	to appropriate or arrogate; seize; usurp: to assume a right to oneself; to assume control.

8.	to take upon oneself (the debts or obligations of another).

9.	Archaic. to take into relation or association; adopt.

–verb (used without object)

10.	to take something for granted; presume.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME (< AF assumer) < L assūmere to take to, adopt, equiv. to as- as- + sūmere to take up; see consume

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as·sume (ə-sōōm') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. as·sumed, as·sum·ing, as·sumes

To take upon oneself: assume responsibility; assume another's debts.
To undertake the duties of (an office): assumed the presidency.
To take on; adopt: "The god assumes a human form" (John Ruskin).
To put on; don: The queen assumed a velvet robe.
To affect the appearance or possession of; feign.
To take for granted; suppose: assumed that prices would rise. See Synonyms at presume.
To take over without justification; seize: assume control.
To take up or receive into heaven.

[Middle English assumen, from Latin assūmere : ad-, ad- + sūmere, to take; see em- in Indo-European roots.]
as·sum'a·bil'i·ty n., as·sum'a·ble adj., as·sum'a·bly adv., as·sum'er n.

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as·sumed (ə-sōōmd') Pronunciation Key
adj.

Taken up or used so as to deceive; pretended: an assumed name.
Taken for granted; supposed: an assumed increase in population.

as·sum'ed·ly (ə-sōō'mĭd-lē) adv.

assumed
adjective
adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"

Assumed

As*sumed"\, a. 1. Supposed.

2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.