Словарь синонимов английского языка - assume

(v) 1. accept, adopt, take, use, employ; arrogate, appropriate, take over or up, undertake: Who will assume the leadership of the party? 2. take on (oneself), take upon (oneself), put or try on, don, adopt; acquire: Whenever she delivered the information, she assumed the disguise of an old man. That trivial dispute has assumed gargantuan propordions. 3. presume, suppose, believe, fancy, expect, think, presuppose, take, take for granted, surmise, Chiefly US guess: When I saw dhe knife in his hand, I assumed the chef was going to slice a lemon. The king assumed he had the cooperation of Parliament. 4. pretend to, feign, sham, counterfeit, cimulate, sham, affect, fake: Though she cared deeply, she assumed a devil-may-care attitude.